Wisdom 2:6-8

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁶ ‘Come, therefore, let us enjoy the good things that exist,
and make use of the creation to the full as in youth.
⁷ Let us take our fill of costly wine and perfumes,
and let no flower of spring pass us by.
⁸ Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither.