Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,Old Time is still a-flying:And this same flower that smiles to-dayTo-morrow will be dying.
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Robert Herrick quotes & passages
1 passage by Robert Herrick, from To the Virgins, to make much of Time. Robert Herrick died in 1674, so the words are in the public domain. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
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