To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Robert Herrick
1591 to 1674
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You may for ever tarry.
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Then be not coy, but use your time;
And while ye may, go marry:
But being spent, the worse, and worst
When youth and blood are warmer;
For having lost but once your prime,
To-morrow will be dying.
The higher he's a-getting;
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
Times, still succeed the former.
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best, which is the first,
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The sooner will his race be run,
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