Time & Brevity

Warning

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850–1919

From Maurine and Other Poems (1888)

Time & Brevity

High in the heavens I saw the moon this morning,
Albeit the sun shone bright;
Unto my soul it spoke, in voice of warning,
"Remember Night!"

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