“The years teach much which the days never know”* Tempus Aeturnus Time is like a lit fuse It burns it sears eludes Deprive and consume To feel its grasp clench like a vice Time and time I feel denied Of all that was and is yet to be The Ebb and flow of all bestowed Will time align this fragile design? Do you feel times flow, its energy — Endlessly? Do we know the bane of mortality? Time eternal — Time is ever beside you Time eternal — Time in time will reveal all Time eternal — Time is ever beside you Time eternal — Time in time does deceive all Tempus Aeturnus Time is life's greatest lie It takes forgets defies All memories transpire In time forgive and learn to grieve To live to die conceive desire to love for all eternity The heart and soul of all betrothed to freely dream incessantly To feel to breath the air the sea to live this life in harmony The pendulum will swing again and time moves forward endlessly Do you feel times flow, its energy — Endlessly? Do we know the bane of mortality? Time eternal — Time is ever beside you Time eternal — Time in time will reveal all Time eternal — Time is ever beside you Time eternal — Time in time does deceive all (in time) Time and time I feel denied Of all that was and is yet to be The Ebb and flow of all bestowed Will time align this fragile design? Do you feel times flow, its energy — Endlessly? Do we know the bane of mortality? Time eternal — Time is ever beside you Time eternal — Time in time will reveal all Time eternal — Time is ever beside you Time eternal — Time in time does deceive all Tempus Aeturnus Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)*