Quote#Death
Sure it is better, when summer is over
Quote byThomas Haynes Bayly · 1797–1839
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Psychæ (1828), "I'd be a Butterfly", line 19; p. 2..
English (original)
Sure it is better, when summer is over To die when all fair things are fading away.
— Thomas Haynes Bayly
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