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Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon;

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“Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon;”

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Herrick uses the brief flowering of daffodils as a mirror for human transience, connecting natural beauty with the sadness of limited time.

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“To Daffodils,” from Hesperides (1648), represented by Project Gutenberg #1211. The poem develops a conventional lyric comparison between short-lived flowers and human mortality.

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