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To Daisies, Not To Shut So Soon

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Shut not so soon; the dull-ey’d night
  Has not as yet begun
To make a seizure on the light,
  Or to seal up the sun.

No marigolds yet closed 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.

Published in Hesperides
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