Quote#Time
With leaden foot Time creeps along
Quote byRichard Jago · 1715–1781
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Absence" in Poems, Moral and Descriptive (1784), p. 171.
English (original)
With leaden foot Time creeps along While Delia is away: With her, nor plaintive was the song, Nor tedious was the day.Ah, envious Pow’r! reverse my doom; Now double thy career, Strain ev’ry nerve, stretch ev’ry plume, And rest them when she’s here!
— Richard Jago
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