A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

197. TO DAISIES, NOT TO SHUT SO SOON

     Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night
     Has not as yet begun
     To make a seizure on the light,
     Or to seal up the sun.

     No marigolds yet closed are,
     No shadows great appear;
     Nor doth the early shepherds' star
     Shine like a spangle here.

     Stay but till my Julia close
     Her life-begetting eye;
     And let the whole world then dispose
     Itself to live or die.