[385] Compare Robert Herrick's poem To Daffodils—
Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song, etc.
See also his poem To Blossoms.—Ed.
[386] 1836.
Whose frail existence is but of a day; 1827.
[387] Compare Lyly's Endymion, v. 3—
To have him in the object of mine eyes.—Ed.
[388] 1836.
The whilst ... 1827.