"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."

Algernon Charles Swinburne, English Poet

Death, Marriage, Time, Old

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"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives."

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