...earth, And nearer to the sky. 1636. GBOWTH, Trae. It is not growing like a trco In bulk, doth make men . (. u(. a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...

...applied prophetically to Falkland himself : — " It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...

...; Our life, our state, our stay, and vital breath, Subject unto the sudden call of death. Boweman. It is not growing like a tree In bulk doth make man...Or standing long an oak three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...

...world of meaning within briefest compass : — It is not growing like a tree In hulk, doth make men better be ; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it full and die...

...she'll procure Some way of entrance) we must plant a guard Of thoughts to watch and ward . . . or of It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere. A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...

...care and if their blossoms were everlasting. Let us remember what wise old Ben Jonson tells us : — It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make Man...long an oak, three hundred year, To fall at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night —...

...Jonson's favourite poet Horace. One famous stanza will show the free form and the meditative tone : It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make man...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere : A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...

...boy of not more than nine if that, having to memorize a verse by Ben Jonson of all people, "It is now growing like a tree, in bulk doth make man better be, or standing long at oak, a thousand year. The lily of the day is fairer far than they," and so on. And what he said...

...answered, and was formed how fair; These make the lines of life, and that's her air. (1. 59-64) 41 Satanic Mills? 35 Bring me my Bow of burning gold: a log at last, dry, bald, and sere: A lily of a day Is fairer far in May Although it fall and die that...

...poet—prose writer though I am you will have begun to realise where my heart is—Ben Jonson said: "It is not growing like a tree In bulk, doth make...standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald and sere: A lily of a day, Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die...