“Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last.”

—  John Dryden, book Fables, Ancient and Modern

Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 72–73.

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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700

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