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Catch then, O! catch the transient hour,
Improve each moment as it flies;
Life's a short Summer — man a flower,
He dies — alas! how soon he dies!
--
Winter, An Ode. The works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (1787), p. 355

 

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