Living
Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend about a Gown and Hat
From Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett (1855)
Living
Wear the gown, and wear the hat,
Snatch thy pleasures while they last;
Hadst thou nine lives, like a cat,
Soon those nine lives would be past.
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MLA
Johnson, Samuel. “Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend about a Gown and Hat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/33/.
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Johnson, Samuel. “Impromptu on Hearing Miss Thrale Consulting with a Friend about a Gown and Hat.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_samuel/33/.
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