All Things Decay And Die
Read 'All Things Decay And Die' by 'Robert Herrick' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.
All things decay with time: The forest sees
The growth and down-fall of her aged trees;
That timber tall, which three-score lustres stood
The proud dictator of the state-like wood,
I mean the sovereign of all plants, the oak,
Droops, dies, and falls without the cleaver's stroke.
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