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Fly not yet 't is just the hour When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, Begins to bloom for sons of night And maids who love the moon.

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Charles Lamb
Age: 59 †
Born: 1775
Born: February 10
Died: 1834
Died: December 27
Literary Critic
Playwright
Poet
Writer
London
England
Love
Moon
Bloom
Like
Flower
Scorn
Justice
Sons
Pleasure
Midnight
Hours
Vulgar
Eye
Begins
Night
Son
Scorns
Light
Hour
Maids

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