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Ah! what is human life? How like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceived! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen: Yet soon the hour is up—and we are—gone.
Ah! what is human life? How like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceived! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen: Yet soon the hour is up—and we are—gone.
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- Young (identity unresolved)
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- Life and Literature (copyright 1910) (1910 AD)
Number 1132 · printed citation: Young
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