{"date":"June 25","id":"06-25","intro":["“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, to-morrow will be dying?” Herrick was only a humble country minister with a wealth of wisdom and a keen appreciation of life, which he expressed in lyrics of wonderful beauty and melody."],"minutes":7,"readings":[{"author":"Robert Herrick","end":340,"start":334,"volume":40,"work":"Poems"}],"slug":"june-25","status":"proofread","title":"Advice to Virgins from a Wise Man","url":"/harvard-classics/june-25/","words":1480}