{"id":11583,"date":"2012-05-04T12:57:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-04T20:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11583"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:56:00","slug":"11583","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11583","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blossoms.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11590\" title=\"blossoms\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blossoms.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"416\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse:\u00a01250\u20131900.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Robert Herrick.\u00a01591\u20131674<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GATHER ye rosebuds while ye may,<br \/>\nOld Time is still a-flying:<br \/>\nAnd this same flower that smiles to-day<br \/>\nTo-morrow will be dying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,<br \/>\nThe higher he&#8217;s a-getting,<br \/>\nThe sooner will his race be run,<br \/>\nAnd nearer he&#8217;s to setting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That age is best which is the first,<br \/>\nWhen youth and blood are warmer;<br \/>\nBut being spent, the worse, and worst<br \/>\nTimes still succeed the former.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Then be not coy, but use your time,<br \/>\nAnd while ye may, go marry:<br \/>\nFor having lost but once your prime,<br \/>\nYou may for ever tarry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse:\u00a01250\u20131900. Robert Herrick.\u00a01591\u20131674 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11583\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-girls-i-envied","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11583"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11595,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11583\/revisions\/11595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}