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...rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live. . . . Canker roses Die to themselves, sweet roses do not so ; Of their sweet deaths are sweetest odours made. — Sonnet 54. I am sure George Herbert was thinking of roses when he said : Farewell, dear flowers,...