But pleasures are like poppies spread—
You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow falls in the river—
A moment white—then melts forever.

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Burns, Robert. "Tam o' Shanter." Edinburgh Herald/Edinburgh Magazine, March 1791.

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