Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, / Old Time is still a flying: / And this same flower, that smiles to-day; / To-morrow will be dying.The spelling has been modernized.
1648, Robert Herrick, “[Amatory Odes.] To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time.”, in Hesperides: Or, The Works both Humane & Divine […], London: […] John Williams, and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold by Tho[mas] Hunt, […], stanza 1; republished as Henry G. Clarke, editor, Hesperides, or Works both Human and Divine, volume I, London: H. G. Clarke and Co., […], 1844, page 74