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Now twice my watch have I taken, / And twice as I've gazing sat, / The hand has pointed unshaken / To one -- and it's long past that!
The clock's light cadences linger. / The sun-dial laughs from the lawn, / And points with a long, gaunt finger / The path that its shade has drawn.