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An infant lies in her cradle bed: / The hands of sleep, on her eyelids fall. / The moments pass, with a noiseless tread, / And the clock on the mantle counts them all. / The infant wakes, with a wailing cry, / But she does not heed, how her life slips by.
A child is sporting, in careless play: / She rivals the birds with her mellow song: / The clock, unheeded, ticks away, / And counts the moments that drift along. / But the child is chasing the butterfly, / And she does not heed how her life drifts by.