Bliss in possession will not last; Remembered joys are never past; At once the fountain, stream, and sea, They were, they are, they yet shall be.
James Montgomery
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- The Little Cloud.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, James Montgomery entry; The Little Cloud.; Wording and named work checked in Bartlett’s published reference; literary quotations are excerpts. Source identifies the work and locator.
- The Little Cloud.
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