The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives … - Francis Thompson

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The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.

Francis Thompson

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Francis Joseph Thompson (December 18, 1859 – November 13, 1907) was an English poet and Catholic mystic.

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Across the margent of the world I fled,
And troubled the gold gateways of the stars,
Smiting for shelter on their clangèd bars:
Fretted to dulcet jars
And silvern chatter the pale ports o’ the moon.

Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.

Upon thy so sore loss
Shall shine the traffic of Jacob’s ladder
Pitched betwixt Heaven and Charing Cross.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. - Francis Thompson

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