<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356157" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sweet Death</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sweetest blossoms die.<br>And so it was that, going day by day<br>Unto the church to praise and pray,<br>And crossing the green churchyard thoughtfully,<br>I saw how on the graves the flowers<br>Shed their fresh leaves in showers,<br>And how their perfume rose up to the sky<br>Before it passed away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The youngest blossoms die.<br>They die, and fall and nourish the rich earth <br>From which they lately had their birth;<br>Sweet life, but sweeter death that passeth by<br>And is as though it had not been:—<br>All colors turn to green:<br>The bright hues vanish, and the odours fly,<br>The grass hath lasting worth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And youth and beauty die.<br>So be it, O my God, Thou God of truth:<br>Better than beauty and than youth<br>Are Saints and Angels, a glad company; <br>And Thou, O lord, our Rest and Ease,<br>Are better far than these.<br>Why should we shrink from our full harvest? why<br>Prefer to glean with Ruth?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Christina+Georgina+Rossetti">Christina Georgina Rossetti</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=356157" data-title="Sweet Death de Christina Georgina Rossetti" data-description="The sweetest blossoms die. And so it was that, going day by day Unto the church to praise and pray, And crossing the green churchyard thoughtfully, I saw how on the graves the flowers Shed their fresh leaves in showers, And how their perfume rose ..."></div> </div> </div>

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