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Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing, Unsoil'd, and swift, and of a silken sound.

William Cowper
Time, Wings, Sound
William Cowper (1824). “Poems of William Cowper, Esq”, p.236

Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.

William Cowper
Time, Guests, Fit
William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works of William Cowper: Letters, 1788-1799. Papers in the Connoisseur. Letter from an owl to a bird of paradise. Fragment of an intended commentary on Paradise lost. Account of the treatment of his hares”, p.334

Gardening imparts an organic perspective on the passage of time.

William Cowper
Time, Spring, Fall

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