Fade, Flow'rs!

Edmund Waller

1606 to 1687

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