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 # its beauty perishes
 
-A flower no longer being beautiful is spoken of as if its beauty dies. Alternate translation: "and it is no longer beautiful" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
+A flower that is becoming less beautiful because it is decaying is spoken of as if its beauty were dying. Alternate translation: "it is no longer beautiful" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor]])
 
 # the rich man will fade away in the middle of his journey