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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Fading Beauty

Anonymous

TAKE Time, my dear, ere Time takes wing:

Beauty knows no second spring.

Marble pillars, tombs of brass,

Time breaks down, much more this glass

Then ere that tyrant Time bespeak it,

Let’s drink healths in’t first, then break it.

At twenty-five in women’s eyes

Beauty does fade, at thirty dies.