This change of humor; pr’ythee tell:

That falling tear—what does it mean?”

She sigh’d; she smiled: and to the flowers

Pointing, the lovely moralist said—

“See, friend, in some few fleeting hours,

See yonder, what a change is made!”

Ah me! the blooming pride of May,

And that of beauty, are but one:

At morn both flourish bright and gay;

Both fade at evening, pale, and gone.