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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4781
AUTHOR:Robert Burns (1759–1796)
QUOTATION:But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed;
Or, like the snow-fall in the river,
A moment white, then melts forever.
ATTRIBUTION:Tam o’ Shanter.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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