"Now, therefore, while the youthful hue sits on thy skin like morning dew..."
This shows the poems shifting tone of "carpe diem." Marvel claims that life is short and precious, so they should be together as much as they can. Beauty is like the dew--it's temporary and expires, so they should seize the day while they have it, and before it's all gone and too late. The poet goes through a whole cycle--he starts off slowly and hesitant, then he tries to pressure and scare the beautiful woman into 'declaring her love for him,' and then, he finally reaches the point wehre he feels as though they need to seize the day and be together. Her beauty and everything around them is completerly temporary; there's a sense of urgency and immediacy permeated throughout the whole poem.
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