When Time who steals our years away
Shall steal our pleasures too,
The mem'ry of the past will stay,
And half our joys renew.
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
-- Song, From Juvenile Poems
Come, come," said Tom's father, "at your time of life
There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake--
It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife"--
"Why, so it is, father--whose wife shall I take?...