Quotation fromDante Gabriel Rossetti's "Ballad of Dead Ladies," an 1869 translation ofFrançois Villon's poem "Ballade des dames du temps jadis" (1533)[1] (in the original,où sont lesneiges d'antan?).
wherearethesnowsofyesteryear?
- (rhetorical question, informal)Used to emphasize thatlife passes quickly.
1915,Thomas Burke, “An Entertainment Night: Round the Halls”, inNights in Town: A London Autobiography, London:George Allen & Unwin […],page44:Pathetic as its passing is, one cannot honestly regret the old school. I was looking last night at the programme of my very first hall, and received a terrible shock to my time-sense.Where are the snows of yesteryear? Where are the entertainers of 1895?
