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• Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone.
• For, lo! the winter is past, the rain is over and gone
  he flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land....
• For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone.
  The flowers apppear on the earth, the time of pruning the vines has come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land....
• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May
  but at length the season of summer does come. -- Thomas Carlyle...
• Such a long long time to be gone.