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WT Sharpe · 01-10-2011, 01:48 PM

This is one of my all-time favorite poetic lines. Perhaps I appreciate it even more now that I'm in my sixth decade.

....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.
..........— Robert Herrick (1591 – 1660), 17th century English poet. "To the Virgins to make much of Time."

01-10-2011, 01:48 PM	#1066
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	This is one of my all-time favorite poetic lines. Perhaps I appreciate it even more now that I'm in my sixth decade. ....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. ..........— Robert Herrick (1591 – 1660), 17th century English poet. "To the Virgins to make much of Time." Last edited by WT Sharpe; 01-10-2011 at 01:50 PM.