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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    1. Ah. And even that references Fulcher’s Ladies’ Memorandum Book and Poetical Miscellany, presumably of 1840.

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