Richard F Gordon

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    If thee thy brittle beauty so deceives,
    Know then the thing that swells thee is thy bane;
    For the same beauty doth, in bloody leaves.
    The sentence of thy early death contain.
    —Sir Richard Fanshawe (1608–1666)

    They mourn, but smile at length; and, smiling, mourn;
    The tree will wither long before it fall;
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)