Faded Beauty

“Beauty, strength, youth, are flowers but fading seen;
Duty, faith, love, are roots, and ever green”.


From the poem ‘A Farewell to Arms’
written in 1590 by George Peele (1556-1596)
Poet, dramatist and supposed collaborator with William Shakespeare on the play ‘Titus Andronicus’


Thank you to Marlieske for hosting DerelictWeek, for which I have blipped this very derelict rose.