Fade, Flow'rs!
Edmund Waller
1606 to 1687
Track 1
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Fade, Flow'rs! fade, Nature will have it so;
'Tis ______ what we must in our autumn do!
And as ______ leaves lie quiet on the ground,
The loss alone ______ those that lov'd them found;
So in the grave ______ we as quiet lie,
Miss'd by some few that lov'd our company;
But some so like to thorns and ______ live,
That none for them can, when they perish, grieve.
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