TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT SO SOON

Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night

Hath not as yet begun

To make a seisure on the light,

Or to seale up the Sun.

No Marigolds yet closèd are;

No shadowes great appeare:

Nor doth the early Shepheard's Starre

Shine like a spangle here.

Stay but till my Julia close

Her life-begetting eye;

And let the whole world then dispose

It selfe to live or dye.

Robert Herrick

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