Robert Herrick: To Daffodils

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Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attain'd his noon Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along We have short time to stay, as you We have as short a spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or anything We die As your hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew Ne'er to be found again