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Lovely Spring, / A brief sweet thing, / Is swift on the wing; / Gracious Summer, / A slow sweet comer, / Hastens past; / Autumn while sweet / Is all incomplete / With a moaning blast, -- / Nothing can last, / Can be cleaved unto, / Can be dwelt upon; / It is hurried through, / It is come and gone, / Undone it cannot be done, / It is ever to do, / Ever old, ever new, / Ever waxing old / And lapsing to Winter cold.