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Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967). Picture-Show. 1920.

28. Vision

I LOVE all things that pass: their briefness is

Music that fades on transient silences.

Winds, birds, and glittering leaves that flare and fall—

They fling delight across the world; they call

To rhythmic-flashing limbs that rove and race…

A moment in the dawn for Youth’s lit face;

A moment’s passion, closing on the cry—

‘O Beauty, born of lovely things that die!’