Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon. - Robert Herrick

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Fair daffadills, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon.

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About Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (baptized August 24 1591 - October 1674) was a 17th century English poet. Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith, who committed suicide when Robert was a year old.

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Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones; come and buy!
If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer, there,
Where my Julia's lips do smile;
There's the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.

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