Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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ON TIME'S UNCERTAINTY. |
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ON TIME'S UNCERTAINTY.
Time past is gone, time present is the same,And only differ in the sound of name.
Time past, if near, is surnam'd, “yesterday,”
And present time will have the same to say.
What is to-day, to-morrow is no more;
And what's to morrow—but the day before?
So change we names—but things we cannot change,
And Time, like Death, holds on his annual range;
And hold he will, till we with Him shall be,
Drove with the tide, and mix eternity!
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