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O Time! the fatal wreck of mortal things, That draws oblivion’s curtains over kings. Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record, are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomp’s all laid i’ the dust, Nor wit, nor gold, nor buildings, ’scape Time’s rust; But he whose name is ’graved in the white stone, Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.
O Time! the fatal wreck of mortal things, That draws oblivion’s curtains over kings. Their sumptuous monuments, men know them not, Their names without a record, are forgot, Their parts, their ports, their pomp’s all laid i’ the dust, Nor wit, nor gold, nor buildings, ’scape Time’s rust; But he whose name is ’graved in the white stone, Shall last and shine when all of these are gone.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Anne Bradstreet (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 608 · printed citation: Mrs. Anne Bradstreet · subject: TIME
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