HERRICK, ROBERT - Everyman`s Poetry

'Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, 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'. -To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, a poem included in this book-