We are hardly ever grateful for a fine clock or watch when it goes right, and we pay attention to it only when it falters, for the
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Being your slave, what should I do but tend
Upon the hours and times of your desire? ...
Upon the hours and times of your desire? ...
How sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept! ...
When time is broke and no proportion kept! ...
In the cowslips peeps I lie,
Hidden from the buzzing fly, ...
Hidden from the buzzing fly, ...
A Clock stopped--
Not the Mantel's-- ...
Not the Mantel's-- ...
In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight ...
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight ...
Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!
He repelled, a short tale to make,
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, ...
Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, ...
When I do count the clock that tells the time,
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night, ...
And see the brave day sunk in hideous night, ...
He makes his voyage too late, perhaps, by a true water clock who delays too long.
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