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...O'Shanter;' yet how simple, natural and real are the metaphors employed to express the thought : — "But pleasures are like poppies spread. You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shea ; Or like the snow-falls iu the river, A moment while — then melts forever; Or like the borealis...

...BUT pleasures are like poppies spread, You seizo the flower, its bloom is shed; Or like the snowfall in the river, A moment white, then melts for ever ; Or like the borcalis race, That tíit ere you can point their place; Or like the rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing...

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...minutes wing'd their way wi' pleasure : Kings may be blest, hut Tarn was glorious, O'er a' the ills of life victorious ! But pleasures are like poppies spread,...seize the flow'r — its bloom is shed ; Or like the snow, falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever ; Or like the Borealis race, That flit...

...;" and then, by imagery of unequalled loveliness, illustrates ai universal and everlasting truth: " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed Or like the snow-lalls in the river, A moment white—then melts for ever; Or like the borealis race, That flit...

..." and then, by imagery of unequalled loveliness, illustrates at universal and everlasting truth : " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed Or like the snow-tails in the river, A moment white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit...

..." and then, by imagery of unequalled loveliness, illustrates ai universal and everlasting truth : " But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed Or like the snow-lalls in the river, A moment white— then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis race, That flit...

...one after the other, a- wave or a bubble ; each lasts its moment, then dies — past off, forgot ; " Or like the snow-falls in the river, A moment white — then melts forever," while the great stream of humanity rolls ever forward, from time to eternity : — not a...

...interval, and ease from pain. Someroille's Chase. Pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed ¡ Or like the snow-falls in the...white — then melts for ever ; Or like the borealis raee, That flits ere you ean point their plaee ; Or like the rainbow's lovely form Evanishing amid...