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Another year of time has passed away, And long eternity is drawing near: Another year—perhaps another day, And man and all his works, may disappear, Time’s but a courser, and his fleet career May end before he reach another round; Or, should he chance to run another year, He lays a thousand dead at every bound! Why longer trust to future years in store? Why hang our hopes upon a spider’s thread? Begin the work of life, and, sleep no more, A flower late planted ne’er may raise its head; Or choked by weeds neglected in the soil, May never, never bloom, nor shed a cheerful smile.
Another year of time has passed away, And long eternity is drawing near: Another year—perhaps another day, And man and all his works, may disappear, Time’s but a courser, and his fleet career May end before he reach another round; Or, should he chance to run another year, He lays a thousand dead at every bound! Why longer trust to future years in store? Why hang our hopes upon a spider’s thread? Begin the work of life, and, sleep no more, A flower late planted ne’er may raise its head; Or choked by weeds neglected in the soil, May never, never bloom, nor shed a cheerful smile.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Peter Still (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 697 · printed citation: Peter Still · subject: YEAR
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