When summer's breath their masked buds discloses : But, for their virtue only is their show, They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade, Die to themselves. Sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made : And so of you, beauteous and... Chaucer, 1400, to Beaumont, 1628 - الصفحة 283 المحررون: - 1819 عرض كامل -
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