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Robert Burns1759–1796

But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
Or like the snow-falls in the river,
A moment white⁠—then melts for ever

Robert Burns on happiness

Tam o’ Shanter (1791)

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