When roses die,
Only the brilliance, the color, the beauty vanish
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Salah Labaki (1906-1955), born in Sao Paulo of Lebanese descent, a poet, prose writer, journalist and lawyer.)
The Death Of Roses
When roses die,
Only the brilliance, the color, the beauty vanish
The scent abides
Lingering with the flowing of the eastern wind.
Roses do not perish,
Even if the leafy stem bow its head and die.