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But as your charms insensibly
To their perfection prest,
So love as unperceived did fly,
And center’d in my breast.
To their perfection prest,
So love as unperceived did fly,
And center’d in my breast.
My passion with your beauty grew,
While Cupid at my heart
Still as his mother favour’d you
Threw a new flaming dart:
Each gloried in their wanton part;
To make a lover, he
Employ’d the utmost of his art—
To make a beauty, she.
While Cupid at my heart
Still as his mother favour’d you
Threw a new flaming dart:
Each gloried in their wanton part;
To make a lover, he
Employ’d the utmost of his art—
To make a beauty, she.
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COUNSEL TO GIRLS
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
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.
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.
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 for ever tarry.
R. Herrick
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime.
You may for ever tarry.
R. Herrick
