1648 in poetry

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To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

Old Time is still a-flying:

And this same flower that smiles to-day

To-morrow will be dying.

— First lines from Robert Herrick's To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time, first published this year

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