All things decay and die

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All things decay and die...
by Robert Herrick
See: Hesperides Published 1648.


(69.) All things decay and die
  
All things decay with Time: The Forrest sees
The growth, and down-fall of her aged trees:
That Timber tall, which three-score lusters stood
The proud Dictator of the State-like wood:
I meane (the Soveraigne of all Plants) the Oke
Droops, dies, and falls without the cleavers stroke.


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