The Signs of Languor in the loveliest face.

The great, the wealthy, who cannot enjoy

What Time brings forth, would Time himself destroy;

But that a Lad from life laborious freed

Should sigh for Action, this is strange indeed;

And yet no Labours in the years gone by

Cost him the feeling witnessed in that Sigh.

Lo! now they meet and greeting seem to say,

“How dealt you, Friends, with Father Time to-day?”

When each his warfare has with Time confest,