Busy, curious, thirsty fly
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English
Busy, curious, thirsty fly!
Drink with me and drink as I:
Freely welcome to my cup,
Couldst thou sip and sip it up:
Make the most of life you may,
Life is short and wears away.
[Both alike are mine and thine]1
[Hastening]2 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!
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1 Bennett: "Just alike, both mine and thine,"
2 Bennett: "Hasten"
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