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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Alexander Balfour

Like the rainbow in a summer shower,
Or gaudy poppy, of fugacious bloom,
’Tis thine to flourish for a transient hour,
Then, withered, sink in dark oblivious tomb.