TIME.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—To your correspondent's quotations touching the nature and duration of Time, may be added the words of Harry Percy, the man of action, as the objective world suddenly melts into the subjective before his dying eyes :—
" But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool; And time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop. 0 I could prophesy ! But that the earthy and cold hand of death Lies on my tongue."
Shakespeare may or may not have remembered the words of the angel in Revelation, who " aware that there should be Time no longer."
Sydney Dobell, in answer to those who, like John Bright, advocate "short views of life," exclaims :-
" Act for to-day ? friend this ' to-day' Washed Adam's feet and streams away Far into yon Eternity."
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