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Vincent Bourne (16951747)
Busy, Curious, Thirsty Fly
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Drink with me, and drink as I;
Freely welcome to my cup,
Coulds’t thou sip and sip it up.
Make the most of life you may:
Life is short, and wears away.
Hastening quick to their decline;
Thine’s a summer, mine no more,
Though repeated to threescore.
Threescore summers, when they’re gone,
Will appear as short as one.