"My life is like the summer rose That opens to the morning sky, But ere the shade of evening close Is scatter'd on the ground to die."
— Life

January 1, 1970

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Claimed by Patrick O'Kelly. The Simile. Pub. 1824. Authorship doubted. The lines appeared in a Philadelphia paper about 1815–16, attributed to Richard Henry Wilde.