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Nature Teaches Us of Time and its Duration
To show us time, its passing and its change,Was Nature made; in which we all do live;
And all its mighty panorama strange
Doth the same lesson to earth's children give.
The seasons come and go, the flower, the leaf,
Teach us how quickly it has taken flight;
And setting suns, with golden splendors brief,
Warn us how soon to day succeeds the night.
And the bright stars that glitter in the sky,
And seem to mock our lives' short, busy round,
And, in their orbits, time itself defy,
Have yet, like man, their date, and certain bound.
What Nature teaches heed; no lesson miss;
And fleeting years shall bring eternal bliss.
Poem No. 740; c. 18 December 1875
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