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If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

— William Browne Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

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Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

For those sacred powers
Tread on oblivion; no desert odours
Can be entombed in their celestial breasts.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

A rose as fair as ever saw the North,
Grew in a little garden all alone:
A sweeter flower did Nature ne’er put forth,
Nor fairer garden yet was never known.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

I saw a mushroom stand in haughty pride,
As if the lilies grew to be his slaves.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

And all the former causes of her moan
Did therewith bury in oblivion.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

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