“He that loves a rosy cheek,
Or a coral lip admires,
Or from star-like eyes doth seek
Fuel to maintain his fires,—
As old Time makes these decay,
So his flames must waste away.”

—  Thomas Carew

Disdain Returned, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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