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StoryTitle("caps", "To Daffodils") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PagePoem(39, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Fair daffodils, we weep to see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You haste away so soon:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As yet the early-rising sun", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Has not attained his noon.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Stay, stay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " Until the hasting day", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Has run", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But to the even-song:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", " And, having pray'd together, we", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will go with you along.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We have short time to stay as you,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "We have as short a spring;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As quick a growth to meet decay,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As you, or anything.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "We die,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As your hours do, and dry", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "Away", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Like to the summer's rain,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or as the pearls of morning's dew", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Ne'r to be found again.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", SmallCapsText("—Robert Herrick.")) ?>
PoemEnd() ?>