“Joys too exquisite to last,
And yet more exquisite when past.”
James Montgomery (1771–1854) British editor, hymn writer, and poet
The Little Cloud.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“T is a little thing
To give a cup of water; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drained by fevered lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.”
Act i. Sc. 2.
Ion (1835)
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