“Beauty's of a fading nature
Has a season and is gone!”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? (1764)
“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”
Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.
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