William Cullen Bryant Quotes on Time
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They talk of short-lived pleasures-be it so- pain dies as quickly: stern, hard-featured pain Expires, and lets her weary prisoner go. The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; And after dreams of horror, comes again The welcome morning with its rays of peace.
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Weep not that the world changes-did it keep A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep.
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Thou unrelenting Past! Strong are the barriers round thy dark domain, And fetters, sure and fast, Hold all that enter thy unbreathing reign.
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Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again; The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.
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And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.
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The hills, Rock-ribbed, and ancient as the sun.
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Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign.