62237. Twells, Henry. The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996

The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.


NUMBER:	62237
QUOTATION:	When as a child I laughed and wept, Time crept. When as a youth I waxed more bold, Time strolled. When I became a full-grown man, Time RAN. When older still I daily grew, Time FLEW. Soon I shall find, in passing on, Time gone. O Christ! wilt Thou have saved me then? Amen.
ATTRIBUTION:	Henry Twells (1823–1900), British rhymester. “Time’s Paces,” quoted in Alan L. Mackay, The Harvest of a Quiet Eye (1977). Poem fixed to the front of the clock-case in the North Transept of Chester Cathedral.