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“His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! Oh swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst time and age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain; youth waneth by encreasing.”
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- Source:
- Sonnet. Polyhymnia.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3745f1ffe17500c389b1821712240879741f9649fd3152f50a0a4d3e929aba19
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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