PRESENT, THE.
Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand.
Hymn. C. WESLEY.
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
Lalla Rookh: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
T. MOORE.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state.
Essay on Man, Epistle I. A. POPE.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Imitation of Horace, Bk. I. Ode 29. J. DRYDEN.
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
Letter to Cobham. W. CONGREVE.
Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal Now does always last.
Davideis, Vol. I. Bk. I. A. COWLEY.