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The shadow by my finger cast / Divides the future from the past: / Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, / In darkness, and beyond thy power: / Behind its unreturning line, / The vanished hour, no longer thine: / One hour alone is in thy hands, -- / The NOW on which the shadow stands.
March, 1904.