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

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Benjamin Johnson: "It is not growing like a tree
in bulk doth make man 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 in May
Although it fall and die that night,
It was the plant of flower and light,
In small proportions we just beauties see;
And in short measures, life may perfect be."

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Although	Bald	Beauties	Better
Bulk	Doth	Fairer	Fall
Flower	Growing	Hundred	Just
Last	Life	Light	Lily
Long	Make	Measures	Night
Perfect	Plant	Proportions	Sere
Short	Small	Standing	Three
Tree	Year

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