“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.
“Plant the flower of love on fertile ground, and provide personal care; furnish water during a drought; offer substance so it will grow strong, and always prune the deadened branches to spring anew.”
1980
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