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Pleasures Quotes by Robert Burns
- Pleasures are like poppies spread: You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed.
- Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring.
- But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then…
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