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

— Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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Compare: "Loose his beard and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air", Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2

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