Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye,
Thy root is ever in its grave,  
And thou must die.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie,
My music shows ye have your closes,
 And all must die.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.

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