by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

Language: English 
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.

Composition:

    Set to music by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953), "To Daisies", op. 8 no. 3 (1905), published 1906 [ voice and piano ], from To Julia, no. 3, London, Boosey

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Line count: 12
Word count: 66