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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

Poems of Sentiment: I. Time

Time: An Enigma

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)

EVER eating, never cloying,

All-devouring, all-destroying,

Never finding full repast

Till I eat the world at last.