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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Decay
 
  Decay like the rainbow’s hue.
            —Anonymous		  1
  We decay like grass of the hill; our strength returns no more.
            —James Macpherson		  2
  All decay, like the glories of the Spring.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  3
            As soon decay’d and done
As is the morning’s silver-melting dew.
            —William Shakespeare		  4
            Decay
Like corpses in a charnel.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  5
 
 
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