To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
b"Herrick read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\nTo Daffodils \\nby Robert Herrick (1591 \\u2013 1674)\\n\\nFair daffodils, we weep to see\\nYou haste away so soon;\\nAs yet the early-rising sun\\n Has not attain'd his noon.\\n Stay, stay\\n Until the hasting day\\n Has run\\n But to the evensong;\\nAnd, having pray'd together, we\\n Will go with you along.\\n\\nWe have short time to stay, as you,\\n We have as short a spring;\\nAs quick a growth to meet decay,\\n As you, or anything.\\n We die\\n As your hours do, and dry\\n Away\\n Like to the summer's rain;\\nOr as the pearls of morning's dew,\\n Ne'er to be found again."