Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes About Time
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Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran .
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For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered isgrief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
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For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust. Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
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My loss may shine yet goodlier than your gain When Time and God give judgment.
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Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives.
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