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Scene: a railway station.
Just two minutes more!
O Tempus, stand still, / Stand still, I implore, / One moment, until / I have time to reflect / On what I would say.
Give me time to collect / My senses, I pray, / Until I have said / What my courage was mounting / To say, when instead / I was stupidly counting / The moments that fled!
O Tempus! you're flying!
A plague on this parting, / This sighing, goodbying, / This smiling and smarting; / A plague too upon / This -- Heavens! it's starting!
Good bye! -- / There, she's gone!