Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.
This advice 17th Century Poet Richard Herrick gave "To the Virgins." Novelist Robert Herrick, born more than two centuries later, does not favor the same type of literary composition. A New Englander who began novelizing while he was a professor at the University of Chicago, he made his reputation with Together (a best seller in 1908) which touched not lightly upon adultery. Yet last week he, too, addressed himself...
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