Time & Brevity
The Sun-Dial at Wells College
From The Poems of Henry van Dyke (1925)
Time & Brevity
The shadow by my finger cast
Divides the future from the past:
Before it, sleeps the unborn hour,
In darkness, and beyond thy power:
Behind its unreturning line,
The vanished hour, no longer thine:
One hour alone is in thy hands,--
The NOW on which the shadow stands.
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Codex Note
From "Epigrams, Greetings, and Inscriptions". Subtitle in the source: For the Class of 1904. Dated March, 1904 in the source.
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Dyke, Henry van. “The Sun-Dial at Wells College.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/96/.
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Dyke, Henry van. “The Sun-Dial at Wells College.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/vandyke/96/.
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