Have you seen but a bright lily grow <br />Before rude hands have touched it? <br />Have you marked but the fall of snow <br />Before the soil hath smutched it? <br />Have you felt the wool of beaver, <br />Or swan's down ever? <br />Or have smelt o' the bud o' the brier, <br />Or the nard in the fire? <br />Or have tasted the bag of the bee? <br />O so white, O so soft, O so sweet is she!<br /><br />Benjamin Jonson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/have-you-seen-but-a-bright-lily-grow/
