StoryTitle("caps", "To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Old Time is still a-flying: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And this same flower that smiles to-day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To-morrow will be dying. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The higher he's a-getting, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The sooner will his race be run, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And nearer he's to setting. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That age is best which is the first, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When youth and blood are warmer;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But being spent, the worse, and worst ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Times still succeed the former. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then be not coy, but use your time, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And while ye may, go marry: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For having lost but once your prime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "You may for ever tarry.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>