Beauty's of a fading nature, Has a season, and is gone!

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Beauty's of a fading nature, Has a season, and is gone!

Robert Burns

1764

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Beauty fades The ephemeral Beauty

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1764 Age of Enlightenment

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Robert Burns

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Burns, Robert. Will Ye Go and Marry Katie? c. 1764.

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