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Quotation from The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes by John Milton
“How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth, Stoln on his wing my three and twentith yeer”
The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Sonnet VII, ll. 1-2 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works))
Milton's sonnet on reaching his twenty-fourth year with nothing yet accomplished.
Citation: "How soon hath Time the suttle theef of youth, Stoln on his wing my three and twentith yeer" — John Milton, The Shorter Poems and Samson Agonistes, Sonnet VII, ll. 1-2 (Project Gutenberg #1745 (Beeching, Poetical Works)). (id milton-shorter-poems-and-samson-agonistes-q2)
