ONE DAY AT A TIME

"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 sere.

A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night...
In small porportions we just beauties see,
And in short measure life may perfect be."

Ben Jonson