Who can undo What time hath done? who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep? (Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton)

Who can undo What time hath done? who can win back the wind? Beckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep?

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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