Lord Byron on Time
1788–1824 England
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The best of prophets of the future is the past.
The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.
The Age of Bronze (1823)
Gone—glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Spared and blessed by Time,
Looking tranquility.
Eternity forbids thee to forget.
When Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.
Think'st thou existence doth depend on time?
It doth; but actions are our epochs: mine
Have made my days and nights imperishable
Endless, and all alike, as sands on the shore
Innumerable atoms; and one desert
Barren and cold, on which the wild waves break,
But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks,
Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.
Manfred (1817)
Yet Time, who changes all, had altered him
In soul and aspect as in age; years steal
Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb;
And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.
Out upon Time! it will leave no more
Of the things to come than the things before!
Out upon Time! who forever will leave
But enough of the past for the future to grieve.