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"An age that melts with unperceivd decay, And glides in modest innocence away."
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Decay"There seems to be a constant decay of all our ideas; even of those which are struck deepest, and in minds the most retentive, so that if they be not sometimes renewed by repeated exercises of the senses, or reflection on those kinds of objects which at first occasioned them, the print wears out, and at last there remains nothing to be seen."
"An age that melts with unperceivd decay, And glides in modest innocence away."
"Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes falln away. Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day."
"As is the bud bit with an envious worm, Ere he can spread his sweet leaves to the air, Or dedicate his beauty to the sun."
"In the sweetest bud The eating canker dwells."
"A gilded halo hovering round decay."
"The ripest fruit first falls, and so doth he; His time is spent."