We are but minutes

We are but minutes - little things

Each one furnished with sixty wings,

With each we fly on our unseen track,

And not a minute ever comes back.

We are but minutes - yet each one bears

A little burden of joys and cares,

Patiently take the minutes of pain,

The worst of minutes cannot remain.

We are but minutes - when we bring

A few of the drops from pleasure's spring,

Taste their sweetness while we stay,

It takes but a minute to fly away.

We are but minutes - use us well,

For how we are used we must one day tell;

Who uses us has hours to use,

Who loses minutes, whole years must lose.

-Anonymous

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