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> [Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/let-you-hold-in-mind-girls-that-your-beauty-must-pass-like-a-lovely/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

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## Other authors on Carpe

## More by X. J. Kennedy

> [On solemn asses fall plush sinecures, So keep a straight face and sit tight on yours.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/on-solemn-asses-fall-plush-sinecures-so-keep-a-straight-face-and-sit/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

> [Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/let-you-hold-in-mind-girls-that-your-beauty-must-pass-like-a-lovely/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

> [In poetry, only emotion endures.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/in-poetry-only-emotion-endures/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

> [In thigh-high yellow leather boots Plump Saphonisba strides. Too bad that, just to hide her calves, Two calves have lost their hides.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/in-thigh-high-yellow-leather-boots-plump-saphonisba-strides-too-bad/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

> [The Purpose of Time is to Prevent Everything from Happening at Once](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/the-purpose-of-time-is-to-prevent-everything-from-happening-at-once/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

> [Poetry is probably the one field of writing in which it is a mistake to try to psych out editors. In fact, specific marketing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/x-j-kennedy/poetry-is-probably-the-one-field-of-writing-in-which-it-is-a-mistake/)

[X. J. Kennedy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/x-j-kennedy/)

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