Undecaying

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1599. Daniel, Musoph., Wks. (1602), A vj. These Lines are … the arteries, And vndecaying life-strings of those harts That stil shall pant.

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1641. Milton, Prel. Episc., 11. The intire, the spotlesse, and undecaying robe of Truth.

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1725. Pope, Odyss., IX. 239. Unmingled wine, Mellifluous, undecaying, and divine!

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1810. Southey, Kehama, X. vii. Every amaranthine flower Its deathless blossom interweaves With bright and undecaying leaves.

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1868. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 128. I don’t care for Henri Deux and the undecaying Diane.

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