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Quotation from Tam o’ Shanter by Robert Burns

“But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed”

Robert Burns (spoken by The narrator)

Tam o’ Shanter, Inn scene (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement))

The narrator's reflection on the fleeting nature of pleasure.

Citation: "But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed" — Robert Burns, Tam o’ Shanter, Inn scene (Gutenberg #1279: Poems and Songs of Robert Burns (chronological arrangement)). (id tam-o-shanter-q2)

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