The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose's scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose!
Source: Daisy, in Poems, vol. 1, 1913.
-- Edward Thomas, (Mar 3 1878-1917), English poet, critic; His poems, If I Should Ever By Chance and Early One Morning have been collected into Poems, 1917 and Last Poems, 1918.