Robert Burns Quotes on Time
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Beauty's of a fading nature Has a season and is gone!
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Stern Ruin's plowshare drives elate, Full on thy bloom.
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This day, Time winds th' exhausted chain, To run the twelvemonth's length again.
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The golden Hours on angel wings Flew o'er me and my Dearie; For dear to me as light and life Was my sweet Highland Mary.
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O Mary, at thy window be! It is the wished, the trysted hour.
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But pleasures are like poppies spread- You seize the flow'r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river- A moment white-then melts forever.
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Nae man can tether time or tide.
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That hour, o' night's black arch the keystane.