“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician
Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.
“Poor pitied youth! …
Bring fragrant flowers, the whitest lillies bring,
With all the purple beauties of the spring;
These gifts at least, these honours I'll bestow
On the dear youth, to please his shade below.”
Book VI, line 1259
The Æneid of Virgil (1740)
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