WHAT IS TIME?
(from David Harsha)
WHAT IS TIME? (David Harsha)
Time is a stream which is rapidly bearing us all to the boundless ocean of eternity!
Let us ask again, with all seriousness,
WHAT IS TIME?
I asked an aged man, a man of cares, Wrinkled, and curved, and white with hoary hairs;
“Time is the warp of life,” he said, “Oh tell,
The young, the fair, the gay, to weave it well!”
I asked the ancient, venerable dead,
Sages who wrote, and warriors who bled;
From the cold grave a hollow murmur flowed,
“Time sowed the seed we reap in this abode!”
I asked a dying sinner, before the tide
Of life had left his veins: “Time!” he replied;
“I’ve lost it! ah, the treasure!” and he died.
I asked the golden sun and silver spheres,
Those bright chronometers of days and years;
They answered, “Time is but a meteor glare,”
And bids us for Eternity prepare.
I asked the Seasons, in their annual round,
Which beautify or desolate the ground;
And they replied (no oracle more wise),
“Tis folly’s blank, and wisdom’s highest prize!”
I asked a lost spirit, but oh, the shriek
That pierced my soul! I shudder while I speak!
It cried, “a particle! a speck! a mite
Of endless years, duration infinite!” I asked my Bible and it said,
“Time is the present hour, the past is fled;
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