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“The Triumph of Time”!!

“Sick dreams and sad of a dull delight; / For what shall it profit when men are dead / to have dreamed, to have loved with the whole soul’s might, / To have look for day when the day was fled? / Let come what will, there is one thing worth, / To have had fair love in the life upon earth: / To have held love safe till the day grew night, / While skies had colour and lips were red.”