O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem By that sweet ornament which truth doth give ! The rose looks fair , but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live A perfumed tincture of the roses hang on such thorns and play a wantonly When spring's breath their masked buds pop open But for their virtue , only is their show They live unwoo'd and unrespected fade Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made
And so beauteous and lovely sister Not marble nor the gilded monuments of Queens shall outlive this powerful rhyme But you shall shine bright in this contents Than unswept stone , besmear'd with sluttish time
When the wasteful tides of life shall legacies overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry The living record of your memory Gainst death and all oblivious emmity Your good works shall still find room even in the eyes of strangers So even till the judgement that yourself arise, You live in this and dwell in thy brother's heart and eyes
Happy Birthday Sister !
I bless the stars for giving me you years ago... I love you sister