Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). An American Anthology, 1787–1900. 1900.
By MayburyFleming1152 What Though the Green Leaf Grow?
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’T will last a month and day;
In all sweet flowers that blow
Lurks Death, his slave Decay.
There is no Death at all;
The world is fair the while,—
What though the red leaf fall?