Ah, Lalage! while life is ours, Hoard not thy beauty rose a… - Ernest Dowson

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Ah, Lalage! while life is ours,
Hoard not thy beauty rose and white,
But pluck the pretty, fleeting flowers
That deck our little path of light:
For all too soon we twain shall tread
The bitter pastures of the dead:
Estranged, sad spectres of the night.

Ernest Dowson

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Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 23 February 1900) was an English poet associated with the Decadent Movement.

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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

Ah, God, that sweet things should decline,
And fires fade out which were not cold, Erewhile.

You ask my love completest,
As strong next year as now,
The devil take you, sweetest,
Ere I make aught such vow.
Life is a masque that changes,
A fig for constancy!
No love at all were better,
Than love which is not free.

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