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FATI VALET HORA BENIGNI by SAMUEL BISHOP

First Line: IN MYRIAD SWARMS, EACH SUMMER SUN
Last Line: WHEN ALL THOSE HOURS -- ARE PLAY.
Subject(s): PLAY; SUMMER;
IN myriad swarms, each summer sun
An insect nation shows;
Whose being, since he rose begun,
And e'er he sets will close.

Brief is their date, confin'd their powers,
The fluttering of a day; --
Yet life's worth living, e'en for hours,
When all those hours -- are play.



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