English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Robert Herrick
209. To the Virgins
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Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day,
To-morrow will be dying.
The higher he’s a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he’s to setting.
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times, still succeed the former.
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.