Talk:Poems That Every Child Should Know/The Noble Nature

the noble nature IT is not growing like a tree in bulk, doth make man batter 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 fall and die that night- It was the plant and flower of light In small proportions we just beauties see; And in short measures life may perfect be.

-Ben Jonson