"All lovely things will have an ending, all lovely things will fade and die; and youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by."

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Source : Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.273, Oxford University Press on Demand

Conrad Aiken

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