“Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.”
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“Time elaborately thrown away.”
Source: Night Thoughts ... With notes ... by the Rev. C. E. de Coetlogon ... To which are added the author's poem on the Last Day, the paraphrase on part of the Book of Job [with other poems], and his life
Source: Night Thoughts, on Life, Death and Immortality
“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss.”
“There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.”
“There 's a good time coming, boys! A good time coming.”
Source: Voices from the Crowd: And Other Poems
Source: Thought as a System
Source: Call of The Wild, White Fang
