William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878) American romantic poet and journalist
The Fountain http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page227, st. 3 (1839)
“O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted,
Soft silken primrose fading timelessly.”
Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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