Quote#Time
Touch us gently, Time!
Quote byBarry Cornwall · 1787–1874
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Touch us gently, Time, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face", George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, Book xvii., The Widow..
English (original)
Touch us gently, Time! Let us glide adown thy stream Gently,—as we sometimes glide Through a quiet dream.
— Barry Cornwall
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