| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 23054 |
| QUOTATION: | At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
The space between, is but an hour,
The frail duration of a flower. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Philip Freneau (1752–1832), U.S. poet, sailor, journalist. The Wild Honeysuckle (l. 20–24). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
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