"Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been."

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Source: Samuel Daniel (1855). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Samuel Daniel: With Biographical Introd., Notes, Etc”, p.6

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Samuel Daniel

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Samuel Daniel was an English poet and playwright known for his exploration of love and truth in works like 'The Complaint of Rosamond.'

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