| Robert Herrick's "To The Virgins"
Posted: 4/5/2005 5:16:00 PM | http://www.ftrain.com/poem_to_the_virgins.html
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
By Robert Herrick
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may...
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.
Then be not coy, but use your time,
And, while ye may, go marry;
For, having lost but once your prime,
You may forever tarry. | |
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