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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=425112" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gather Love’s Petals - Parody Robert HERRICK – To the Virgins, to make much of Time and other parodies</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gather Love’s petals while you may, <br>old Time locks box, mocks sighing, <br>blush bloom of youth so lush today <br>soon sees rush hushed, croon dying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life’s almost done before begun, <br>there’s little sense in letting<br>Time fly, for fast the setting sun<br>lets out last room, forgetting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You once would pay prompt to the day<br>the rent when you were letting, <br>and all will say, ‘ah, lack-a-day! ’ –<br>tomb’s prospect’s still upsetting.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So shed false mask, take book and flask, <br>a partner most becoming, <br>bread ‘neath the bough, nought else now ask, <br>as Death sucks breath, brain numbing.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">True love forecast must never bask<br>on laurels – distant drumming<br>takes waste to task, haste to the task, <br>seek joy, don’t toy, go slumming! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Red rose in bloom bedecks the tomb<br>of love lost, cost uncounted, <br>grey shadows loom so don't assume<br>winged options once dismounted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Ride not far and wide, pride set aside, <br>trust basic instincts inner, <br>much more beside wealth counts, two tied<br>by trust's win/win begin a<br>relationship unknown to whip, <br>to rip-tide which submerges<br>what lip to lip can offer hip<br>to hip's united urges.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That age is best when Youth has done<br>with superficial fretting, <br>right choice attested, others shun, <br>sage bats beat restless netting...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Decisions take, no past mistake<br>should hinder joy awaking, <br>so joy's hopes slake in passion's lake<br>let walls fall, towers quaking.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gather ye rosebuds all who will, <br>and yet, though Time’s a-flying, <br>in one fair head, eternal still, <br>Life thrives, Death’s grin denying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The glorious lamp of Heaven, the Sun, <br>as higher he is getting, <br>if e’er his praises were begun -<br>laws seasonal forgetting -<br>go[l]d head embarrassed would be hung -<br>some modesty’s essential -<br>vain beauty pains, gains cobwebs st[r]ung<br>like pearls inconsequential.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life praises who free love and woo <br>where two true fit, pale phantom<br>none envy through tomorrow's dew - <br>Life’s summons flows to summum! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Garner Love’s petals while you play, <br>old Time locks box, mocks sighing, <br>youth's lush bloom blush scents rush today <br>wilts, sense sent spilt-milk crying.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">19 August 2009</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jonathan+Robin">Jonathan Robin</a><div class=q>
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old Time locks box, mocks sighing, 
blush bloom of youth so lush today 
soon sees rush hushed, croon dying.

Life’s almost done before begun, 
there’s little sense in letting
Time fly, for fast the settin..."></div>
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