Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.
To DaffodillsRobert Herrick (15911674)
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You haste away so soone;
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attain’d his noone.
Stay, stay,
Untill the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will goe with you along.
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or any thing.
We die
As your hours doe, and drie
Away,
Like to the summer’s raine;
Or as the pearles of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found againe.