The Poetical Works of John Milton


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ON TIME  
(
Set on a clock case)  
Fly envious Time till thou run out thy race  
call on the lazie leaden-stepping howres  
whose speed is but the heavie plummets pace  
&
glut thy selfe wth what thy womb devoures  
Wch is no more then what is false & vaine  
meerly mortall drosse  
&
so little is our losse  
so little is thy gaine  
for when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd  
&
last of all thy greedie selfe consum'd  
10  
then long Aeternity shall greet our blisse  
wth an individuall kisse  
and Joy shall overtake us as a flood  
when every thing yt is sincerely good  
&
pfectly divine  
with Truth, & Peace, & Love shall ever shine  
about the supreme throne  
of him t' whose happy-making sight alone  
when once our heav'nly-guided soule shall clime  
then all this earthie grossnesse quit  
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attir'd wth starres wee shall for ever sit  
Triumphing over Death, & Chance, & thee O Time.  
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