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Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.

 
NUMBER: 460
AUTHOR: Ernest Dowson (1867–1900)
QUOTATION: They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.
ATTRIBUTION: ERNEST DOWSON, “They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,” stanza 2, The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, p. 22 (1919).
SUBJECTS: Dreams