In Memory of My Dear Granchild Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old by Anne Bradstreet (1678)
"By nature trees do rot when they are grown
And plums and apples thoroughly ripe do fall,
And corn and grass are in their season mown,
And time brings down what is both strong and tall.
But plants new set to be eradicate,
And buds new blown to have so short a date,
Is by His hand alone that guides nature and fate."
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