THE SWEET-BRIER. 25 
Has run 
But to the even-song; 
And having prayed together, we 
Will go with you along ! 
We have short time to stay as you. 
We have as short a spring; 
As quick a growth to meet decay, 
As you or anything : 
We die, 
As your hours do ; and dry 
Away 
Like to the summer’s rain, 
Or as the pearls of morning dew, 
Ne’er to be found again. 
—Herrick, 1648. 
THE SWEET-BRIER. 
Oxjr sweet autumnal western-scented 
wind 
Robs of its odours none so sweet a flower. 
In all the blooming waste it left behind, 
As that the sweet-brier yields it j and the 
shower 
Wets not a rose that buds in beauty’s 
bower 
