To Daisies, not to shut so soon

by Robert Herrick

Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night   Has not as yet begun To make a seizure on the light,   Or to seal up the sun. No marigolds yet closèd are,   No shadows great appear; Nor doth the early shepherd's star   Shine like a spangle here. Stay but till my Julia close   Her life-begetting eye, And let the whole world then dispose   Itself to live or die.

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