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

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Will not depart when mortal voices bid.

Dion.

But thou that didst appear so fair

To fond imagination,

Dost rival in the light of day

Her delicate creation.

Yarrow Visited.

'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower

Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind

Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower,