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TO ENJOY THE TIME

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

While fates permit us, let's be merry;
Pass all we must the fatal ferry;
And this our life, too, whirls away,
With the rotation of the day.




Quotes of the Day

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
• H. G. Wells


Poems of the Day
  • Edwin Markham
    Lion and Lioness
    by Edwin Markham
    One night we were together, you and I, And had unsown Assyria for a lair, Before the walls of Babylon rose in air. How languid hills were heaped along the sky,