Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Time is flying...

I have a really hard time getting up in the mornings - I am so not a morning person. But all could be well if I could only have this clock. Thanks to Jill for bringing this to my attention; she saw it at Mental Multivitamin, whose original posting has sent a wave of covetousness across the blog world!

Apropos, a poem on the subject of fleeting time:


To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may, go marry:
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry.


Robert Herrick

4 comments:

  1. Love the poem and LOVE the alarm clock!

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  2. There is some movie in which the heroine keeps repeating, "Gather ye rosebuds," and I can't remember what the heck it is. Argh! I hate that feeling! Love the poem, though. :)

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  3. I completely forgot to say I've got to hold out and get the Madam version of that clock when it comes out in May!!

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  4. Oh, wow! I had missed any mention of a forthcoming version aimed at Madam! Must go back and check.

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