Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“To the Virgins to Make Much of Time,”
Hesperides, # 208 (1648)
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