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The Plant and Flower of Light

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Michigan · Apr 22, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 16.

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The Plant and Flower of Light

By Ben Jonson

It is not growing like a tree, In bulk, doth make man better be; Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear; A lily of a day Is fairer far in May, Although it fall and die that night— It was the plant and flower of light. In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. — Ben Jonson.