Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
quick! we have but a second
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Quick! We have but a second, fill 'round the cup while you may:
For Time, the churl, hath beckon'd, and we must away, away!
Grasp the pleasure, Oh! Not Orpheus strain could keep sweet hours, or charm them to life again.
Then quick! We have but a second, fill 'round the cup while you may,
For Time, the churl, hath beckon'd, and we must away, away!
See the glass how it flushes, like some young Hebe's lip,
And half meets thine and blushes that thou should delay to sip.
Shame, oh shame if e'er thou see that day when a cup or lip, and turn them untouch'd away.
Then quick! We have but a second, fill round the cup while you may,
For Time, the churl, hath beckon'd, and we must away,