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April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.

— Angus Wilson Misattributed

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Sometimes misattributed to Wilson because quoted in No Laughing Matter (Viking, 1967, p. 75). Actually from "Song (April, April)" in William Watson, The Hope of the World and Other Poems (London: John Lane, 1898), p. 41, which has "Then", not "and".

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