Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives. (Algernon Charles Swinburne)

Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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