Whether we wake or we sleep,
Whether we carol or weep,
The Sun with his Planets in chime,
Marketh the going of Time.Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883) English writer, poet, translator
“Chronomoros,” l. 33ff, Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal (5 Dec 1840)
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FWIW, this poem was first published, apparently anonymously, in the 5 Dec 1840 issue of Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, p. 368, col. 3 (http://bit.ly/2x1rtaQ).
Ah. And even that references Fulcher’s Ladies’ Memorandum Book and Poetical Miscellany, presumably of 1840.
Which I couldn’t find, although I did find a little more information here: http://bit.ly/2fvJx58. This was also his first work.