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DRAMATISTS > dramatist, poet > Pedro Calderon de la Barca
These flowers, which...
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These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly,
Waking in the dawn of the morning,
In the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,
Sleeping in the cold night's arms.
Source: Estas, que fueron pompa y alegr?a.
-- Pedro Calderon de la Barca, (Jan 17 1600-1681), Spanish dramatist, poet; He succeeded Lope de Vega as the greatest Spanish playwright of the Golden Age; wrote The Surgeon of His Honour, 1635.