John Milton’s On Time

Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race,

Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,

Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets pace;

And glut thy self with what thy womb devours,

Which is no more then what is false and vain,


And meerly mortal dross;


So little is our loss,


So little is thy gain.


It continues at Harper’s.