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Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour.
Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Ostensibly polite, you nourish the cunning of the fox in the
hollowness of your heart.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
Crime oft recoils upon the author's head.
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a read more
But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove--
By firm resolve to conquer love!
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my read more
There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
O churl! drink all; and leave no friendly drop!
To be too busie gets contempt.
To be too busie gets contempt.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
To a greedy eating horse a short halter.
