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• An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
  And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.

  Davideis, book ii, line 95. Compare: Loose his beard and hoary hair / Streamd like a meteor to the troubled air, Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2.

  Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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• Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream, Gently, - as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream!

  Bryan Procter
  English poet (1787 - 1874)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• shoulders
• sometimes
• through
• gently
• stream
• loose

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