To Daffodils

By Robert Herrick

1591-1674


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 evensong;
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.

DayPoems Poem No. 252
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