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Time is a feather'd thing,
And, whilst I praise
The sparklings of thy looks and call them rays,
Takes wing,
Leaving behind him as he flies
An unperceivèd dimness in thine eyes.

— Jasper Mayne The Amorous War (1648)

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Compare: Dickinson, "Hope" is the thing with feathers —

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The Amorous War (1648)

Time is a feathered thing,
And, whilst I praise
The sparkling of thy looks, and call them rays,
Takes wing,
Leaving behind him as he flies
An unperceivèd dimness in thine eyes.

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