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Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.

Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller (1806). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...”, p.105
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.