Poem for the day

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky:
The dew shall weep they fall tonight;

For thou must die.

Sweet rose, whose hue angry and brave
Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye:
They root is ever in its grave,

And thou must die.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie;
My music shows ye have your closes,

And all must die.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,

Then chiefly lives.