De tabe et phthisi pronunciata

As an herb saturated with the morning dew
Languishes soon under the midday heat,
Soon it lies on the ground with dried foliage
In the late evening.

Form, color, and strength perish like lilies: but the mind,
Shining with the light of God, remains not to perish.

While I breathe, I breathe for the Lord: when the spirit departs,
I am the Lord's while living, and I am God's while dying.

A horizontal rectangular printer's ornament consists of repeating floral and foliate scrollwork patterns.