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[Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain]
Time passeth away with its pleasure and pain,
Its garlands of cypress and bay,
With wealth and with want, with a balm and a bane,
Time passeth away.
Its garlands of cypress and bay,
With wealth and with want, with a balm and a bane,
Time passeth away.
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Eternity cometh to stay,
Eternity stayeth to go not again;
Eternity barring the way,
Eternity stayeth to go not again;
Eternity barring the way,
Arresting all courses of planet or main,
Arresting who plan or who pray,
Arresting creation: while grand in its wane
Time passeth away.
Arresting who plan or who pray,
Arresting creation: while grand in its wane
Time passeth away.
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