Ah, todos fuimos hermosos alguna vez, dijo

The  Act (un poema de William Carlos Williams)

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded.
                   They won't last, she said.
But they're so beautiful
                  where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she
                     said,
and cut them and gave them to me
                 in my hand

Gerald Kelly, D.D., 1924