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UPON TIME by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: TIME WAS UPON / THE WING, TO FLIE AWAY
Last Line: AND SO AWAY HE FLEW.
Subject(s): TIME;

Time was upon
The wing, to flie away;
And I cal'd on
Him but a while to stay;
But he'd be gone,
For ought that I could say.

He held out then,
A Writing, as he went;
And askt me, when
False man would be content
To pay agen,
What God and Nature lent.

An houre-glasse,
In which were sands but few,
As he did passe,
He shew'd, and told me too,
Mine end near was,
And so away he flew.



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