1652. Benlowes, Theoph., VI. xx.
| Flow’rs on our Heads, as on their Stems, do grow, | |
| Which into fadeless Colours flow, | |
| Nor Cold to blast, nor Heat to scorch, nor Age they know. |
c. 1722. Watts, Reliq. Juv., Ode Death Sir T. Abney. Come dress the bed with fadeless flowers.
1796. Coleridge, To J. Cottle. May your fame fadeless live!
1852. D. M. Moir, The Legend of St. Rosalie, Poet. Wks. II. 79.
| Look up to me—my home is Paradise, | |
| Where all is fadeless, shadowless, and grand. |
1854. H. Miller, Sch. & Schm., xvi. (1860), 177.
| Yet dwells a spirit in this earthy frame | |
| Which oceans cannot quench nor Time destroy;— | |
| A deathless, fadeless ray, a heavenly flame, | |
| That pure shall rise when fails each base alloy | |
| That earth instils, dark grief, or baseless joy. |
Hence Fadelessly adv.
1861. H. Macmillan, Footnotes fr. Page Nature, 189. While the approach of autumn is unmistakably indicated by the springing up of mushrooms in the moist dark recesses of the woods, even when the viewless boundary of summer is not yet crossed, and the air is still balmy and sunny, and the robe of nature fadelessly green.
1880. L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, II. vi. 121. Judah gave each of them a last look, and covered his face with his hands, as if to possess himself of the scene fadelessly. He may have shed tears, though no one saw them.
