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“Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Life 's a short summer, man a flower; He dies--alas! how soon he dies!”
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- Source:
- Winter. An Ode.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7b2c5fe6913fc53389fb2de4c1ad8db1181bfc7564ea0281c51aca7ad8e5c0cb
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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