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, 5
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along. 10
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, 15
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Like to the Summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew
Ne’er to be found again.
That poem discusses the transience of life, comparing the brevity of life to that of a flower. It's part of the carpe diem poetry set, urging the reader to make the most of the short time we have on this earth. Imagery in the poem about shortness of life: days, seasons, spring, morning dew, summer's rain.
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