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Cease Smiling, Dear! A Little While Be Sad

Ernest Dowson

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Ernest Dowson, “Cease Smiling, Dear! A Little While Be Sad.” in Poetry X 17 Nov 2003, <http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1783/> (13 October 2008).

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