| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 23053 |
| QUOTATION: | The flowers that did in Eden bloom; Unpitying frosts, and Autumns power Shall leave no vestige of this flower. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Philip Freneau (17521832), U.S. poet, sailor, journalist. The Wild Honeysuckle (l. 1618). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press. |
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