Hour. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

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It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale’s high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers’ vows Seem sweet in every whisper’d word. Byron.—Parisina, Section I.	1
Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life’s a short summer—man a flower, He dies—alas! how soon he dies! Dr. Johnson.—An Ode on Winter, Verse 9.	2
But just as he began to tell, The auld kirk-hammer strak the bell, Some wee short hour ayont the twal, Which raised us baith. Burns.—Death and Dr. Hornbook, Verse 31.	3