Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.


"Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).


Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.