Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton on Retirement
1831–1891 England
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When time is flown, how it fled
It is better neither to ask nor tell,
Leave the dead moments to bury their dead.
The ages roll
Forward; and, forward with them, draw my soul
Into Time’s infinite sea.
And to be glad or sad I care no more:
But to have done, and to have been, before
I cease to do and be!
The Wanderer (1859)
God be thank'd that the dead have left still
Good undone for the living to do—
Still some aim for the heart and the will
And the soul of a man to pursue.
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.