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Life

George Herbert

Jun 2, 2022
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I made a posy, while the day ran by: 
“Here will I smell my remnant out, and tie 
My life within this band.” 
But Time did beckon to the flowers, and they 
By noon most cunningly did steal away, 
And withered in my hand. 

My hand was next to them, and then my heart; 
I took, without more thinking, in good part 
Time’s gentle admonition; 
Who did so sweetly death’s sad taste convey, 
Making my mind to smell my fatal day, 
Yet, sug’ring the suspicion. 

Farewell dear flowers, sweetly your time ye spent, 
Fit, while ye lived, for smell or ornament, 
And after death for cures. 
I follow straight without complaints or grief, 
Since, if my scent be good, I care not if 
It be as short as yours.
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