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“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.”
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- Source:
- Tam o' Shanter.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 87496d373467fed2641b36bd2133c30920b563a6835dba6a42b9997d1fcd9fb7
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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