Part 2 — CII
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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 hastening day Has run But to the even-song; And having prayed together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you; We have as short a spring: As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing: We die, As your hours do; and dry Away Like to the summer's rain, Or as the pearls of morning dew, Ne'er to be found again.
R. Herrick