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Quotation from The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope
“But since, alas! frail beauty must decay, Curl'd or uncurl'd, since Locks will turn to grey;”
The Rape of the Lock, Canto V, lines 25-26 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906))
Clarissa's speech on the passing of beauty.
Citation: "But since, alas! frail beauty must decay, Curl'd or uncurl'd, since Locks will turn to grey;" — Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto V, lines 25-26 (Gutenberg #9800: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems, ed. Thomas Marc Parrott (Boston: Ginn, 1906)). (id the-rape-of-the-lock-q5)
