At first thy little being came: If nothing once, you nothing lose, For when you die you are the same; The space between, is but an hour, The frail duration of a flower.
ATTRIBUTION:
Philip Freneau (1752–1832), U.S. poet, sailor, journalist. The Wild Honeysuckle (l. 20–24). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxford University Press.
