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
Nature
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
To the Virgins to make much of Time.
Recorded in John Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, 1905 printing.