Gather the rose of love, while yet thou mayest,
Loving, be loved; embracing, be embraced.

Canto XVI, stanza 15 (tr. Fairfax) | Gather the Rose of Love, whilst yet is time, Whilst loving thou mayst loved be with equal crime. | Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, B. II, C. XII, st. 75 | Gather ye rosebuds while ye may. | Robert Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"