ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE.
by Robert Herrick


ALL things decay with time : the forest sees
The growth and downfall of her aged trees ;
That timber tall, which threescore lusters stood
The proud dictator of the state-like wood,
I mean (the sovereign of all plants) the oak,
Droops, dies, and falls without the cleaver's stroke.


Lusters, the Roman reckoning of five years.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 25.


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