378 FLOKA DOMESTICA. 



Bright orient pearl, alack ! too timely shaded ! 

 Fair creature killed too soon by death's sharp sting ! 

 Like a green plum that hangs upon a tree, 

 And falls, through wind, before the fall should be." 



The following lines appear to have been sent with a Rose 

 as a present to Sacharissa : 



" Go lovely rose ! 

 Tell her that wastes her time and me, 



That now she knows 

 When I resemble her to thee, 

 How sweet and fair she seems to be. 



Tell her that's young, 

 And shuns to have her graces spy'd. 



That hadst thou sprung 

 In deserts where no men abide 

 Thou must have uncommended died. 



Small is the worth 

 Of beauty from the light retired : 



Bid her come forth, 

 Suffer herself to be desired, 

 And not blush so to be admired. 



Then die ! that she 

 The common fate of all things rare 



May read in thee : 

 How small a part of time they share 

 That are so wondrous sweet and fair." 



WALLER. 



<f Looke as a sweet rose fairely budding forth 

 Bewrayes her beauties to th' enamoured morne, 

 Until some keene blast from the envious north 

 Kills the sweet bud that was but newly borne, 

 Or else her rarest smels delighting, 



Make her herselfe betray, 

 Some white and curious hand inviting 

 To pluck her thence away." 



W. BROWNE. 



" Turn pater Anchises magnum cratera corona 

 Induit, implevitque mero." 



VIRGIL, JENEiD, book 3. 



