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TIME COMES BACK NO MORE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Feb 18, 1902

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 79, No. 7.

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TIME COMES BACK NO MORE.

On swift wing down from heaven above An angel gathered up the hours, And folded them to his white breast, Like faded wreaths of summer flowers.
And hour he gathered unto hour; Till all my life was garnered there— Each song, each smile, and all my care, Each idle word and every prayer.
With streaming eyes I reached my hands, And cried, “O, give them back to me, And I will give thee fairer ones To blossom in eternity!”
With pitying eye the angel looked Upon the drooping flowers he bore, And said, “God ever holds thy past, And days and years come back no more.” — Anon.