Who hath not saved some trifling thing
More prized than jewels rare,
A faded flower, a broken ring,
A tress of golden hair.


'Tis but a Little Faded Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12.


Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair.

Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair.

Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair.

Who hath not saved some trifling thing More prized than jewels rare, A faded flower, a broken ring, A tress of golden hair.