Wisdom of Ben Sira 50:8-10

New Catholic Bible

⁸ like a rose in springtime,
    like a lily by a spring of water,
like a green shoot on Lebanon on a summer’s day,
⁹     like incense set afire in the censer,
like a vessel of beaten gold
    embellished with every kind of precious stone,
¹⁰ like an olive tree laden with fruit,
    like a cypress reaching to the clouds.