PoemLine("L0", "", "Blown in the morning, thou shalt fade ere noon. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "What boots a life which in such haste forsakes thee? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou'rt wondrous frolic, being to die so soon, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And passing proud a little colour makes thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sentence of thy early death contain. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Some clown's coarse lungs will poison thy sweet flower, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "If by the careless plough thou shalt be torn; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And many Herods lie in wait each hour ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To murder thee as soon as thou art born— ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nay, force thy bud to blow—their tyrant breath ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Anticipating life, to hasten death!", "") ?>
Poet("Sir Richard Fanshawe", "1608–1666") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>