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Robert Herrick on Birthday

1591–1674 England

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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

Hesperides (1648)

Thus times do shift; each thing his turne does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Herrick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.