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“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? …” by William Shakespeare 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (c. 23 Apr 1564 – 23 Apr 1616)
O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear, your true love’s coming,
That can sing both high and low.
Trip no further pretty sweeting.
Journeys end in lovers’ meeting,
Every wise man’s son doth know.
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What is love, ’tis not hereafter,
Present mirth, hath present laughter:
What’s to come, is still unsure.
In delay there lies no plenty,
Then come kiss me sweet and twenty:
Youth’s a stuff will not endure.