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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton on New Year

1831–1891 England

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Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!

Lucile (1860)

When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.

Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky,
Dreary the leaf lieth low.
All things must come to the earth by and by,
Out of which all things grow.

However we pass Time, he passes still,
Passing away whatever the pastime,
And, whether we use him well or ill,
Some day he gives us the slip for the last time.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.