Days and moments quickly flying
Days and moments quickly flying. Edward Caswall* (1814-1878).
First published in Caswall’s The Masque of Mary, and Other Poems (1858), with the title ‘Swiftness of Time’. To it was appended a stanza entitled ‘A Warning’:
As the tree falls,
So must it lie;
As the man lives,
So will he die;
As the man dies,
Such must he be,
All through the days of eternity.
The four stanzas of ‘Swiftness of Time’ were printed in the Appendix (1868) to the First Edition of A&M, placed at ‘New Year’s Eve’:
Days and moment quickly flying Blend the living with the dead;Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.
Soon our souls to God Who gave them Will...
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