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TO THE MOMENT LAST PAST by WILLIAM HABINGTON

First Line: O WHITHER DOST THOU FLYE? CANNOT MY VOW
Last Line: TEN OF HIS FELLOW MOMENTS FLED AWAY.
Subject(s): TIME;

O WHITHER dost thou flye? Cannot my vow
Intreat thee tarry? Thou wert here but now,
And thou art gone: like ships which plough the sea,
And leave no print for man to tracke their way.
O unseene wealth! who thee did husband, can
Out-vie the jewels of the ocean,
The mines of th'earth! One sigh well spent in thee
Had beene a purchase for eternity!
We will not loose thee then. Castara, where
Shall we find out this hidden sepulcher;
And wee'le revive him. Not the cruell stealth
Of fate shall rob us of so great a wealth.
Undone in thrift! while we besought his stay,
Ten of his fellow moments fled away.



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