...fifty years since. The third is added by way of contrast. i. Like as a damask rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the dainty flower...morning of the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Even such is man, whose thread is spun, Drawn out and cut, and so is done. The rose withers, the blossom...

...a flourish: Like as a damask Rose you see, Or like the blossom on the tree, Or like the morning to the day, Or like the Sun, or like the Shade, Or like the Gourd which Jonas had: Even such is MAN.) Whose thread is spun, Drawn out and cut, and so, 'tis done. Withers the Rose, the blossom...

...the fact that all nature shared the same doom : Like to the Damask Rose you see, Or like the Blossome on the Tree, Or like the dainty Flower of May, Or...Even so is Man, whose Thread is spun, Drawn out, and cutt, and so is done. OF JOHN AUBREY The Rose withers, the Blossom blasteth, The Flower fades, the...

...seventeenth-century verse, the poem had probably been circulating in manuscript. Or like the Sunne, or like the shade, Or like the Gourd which Jonas had,' Even such is man whose thred is spunne, Drawne out and cut, and so is done. The Rose withers, the blossome...

...Islands of Scotland, and translated into English. Or like a dainty flower in May, Or like the morning to the day, Or like the sun, or like the shade, Or like the gourd which Jonah made; Even such is man whose thread 5s spue, Drawn out and out, and so is done. The rose withers,...