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But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,
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O Death! O Change! O Time!
Without you, O! the insufferable eyes
Of these poor Might-Have-Beens,
These fatuous, ineffectual yesterdays.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with read more
Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.
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 age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.
The age of chivalry is gone.--That of sophisters, economists and
calculators has succeeded.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
