William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Fading BeautyAnonymous
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Beauty knows no second spring.
Marble pillars, tombs of brass,
Time breaks down, much more this glass
Then ere that tyrant Time bespeak it,
Let’s drink healths in’t first, then break it.
At twenty-five in women’s eyes
Beauty does fade, at thirty dies.