Time & Brevity
The Hour-Glass
From The Villager's Verse-Book
Time & Brevity
As by my mother's side I stand,
Whose hairs, alas, are few and gray,
I watch the hour-glass shed its sand,
To mark how wears the night away.
Though age must many ills endure,
As time for ever runs away,
This shows her Christian comforts sure,
And leads to heaven's eternal day.
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MLA
Bowles, William Lisle. “The Hour-Glass.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/bowles/117/.
Chicago
Bowles, William Lisle. “The Hour-Glass.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/bowles/117/.
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