All the flowers of the spring Meet to perfume our burying: These have but their growing prime, And man does flourish but his time. Survey our progress from our birth, We are set, we grow, we turn to earth. Courts adieu, and all delights, All bewitching appetites! Sweetest breath and clearest eye, Like perfumes, go out and die; And consequently this is done, As shadows wait upon the sun. Vain the ambition of kings, Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.                                     JOHN WEBSTER _Spring: A Folio Anthology_.  # Explanation