Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Then steal away, give little warning,

Choose thine own time;

Say not "Good night," but in some brighter clime

Bid me "Good morning."

Life.

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So fades a summer cloud away;

So sinks the gale when storms are o'er;

So gently shuts the eye of day;[434:1]

So dies a wave along the shore.