Naught may endure but mutability.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mutability
What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel
Of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway,
But that thereby doth find, & plainly feel,
How mutability in them doth play
Her cruel sports, to many mens’ decay?
—Edmund Spenser, The Fairie Queene
The good die first,
—William Wordsworth, The Excursion
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