Time is a taper waning fast! <br />Use it, man, well whilst it doth last: <br />Lest burning downwards it consume away, <br />Before thou hast commenced the labour of the day. <br /> <br />Time is a pardon of a goodly soil! <br />Plenty shall crown thine honest toil: <br />But if uncultivated, rankest weeds <br />Shall choke the efforts of the rising seeds. <br /> <br />Time is a leasehold of uncertain date! <br />Granted to thee by everlasting fate. <br />Neglect not thou, ere thy short term expire, <br />To save thy soul from ever-burning fire.<br /><br />Edward Lear<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/imitation-of-the-olden-poets/
