I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will read more

Enjoy the spring of love and youth,
To some good angel leave the rest,
For time will teach thee soon the truth,
"There are no birds in last year's nest."

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my read more

Not heaven itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

The best of prophets of the future is the past.

Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the read more

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is
found in the effect was already in the cause.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.