The "Long Ago"

O a Wonderful stream is the river of time,

As it runs through the realm of tears,

With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme,

And a boundless sweep and surge sublime,

As it blends with the Ocean of Years.

-- Benj. P. Taylor

Longfellow

What is time? -- the shadow on the dial,
the striking of the clock, the running
of the sand, day and night, summer and winter,
months, years, centuries? These are but
arbitrary and outward signs, the measure
of time, not time itself.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow