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'Joy Is Fleet'

by George Meredith

George Meredith

Joy is fleet,
Sorrow slow.
Love, so sweet,
Sorrow will sow.
Love, that has flown
Ere day's decline,
Love to have known,
Sorrow, be mine!




Last updated January 14, 2019

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Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top

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