"O fairest flower! no sooner blown but blasted, Soft silken primrose fading timelessly."
— John Milton

January 1, 1970

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Ode on the Death of a fair Infant, dying of a Cough, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)