Quote:
Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
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."
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In response, I give to you some of my all time favorites:
From
A Psalm of Life Longfellow
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.