What is love? ’tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What’s to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty;
Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-Twenty,
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.
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GO, LOVELY ROSE.
By Edmund Waller (1605–1687).
Go, lovely Rose—