Time Flies by Frank Ellis

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D.C. · Sep 8, 1904

Time Flies

By Frank Ellis

Sixty seconds make a minute, So my father used to say, What you've got to do, begin it, Or 'twill not be done to-day; For so fast the seconds fly, You can't catch one — nor can I.

Sixty minutes make an hour, So my mother used to tell; While you've got the strength and power, Do your work, and do it well; Or at night you'll have to say, “I've done nothing all the day.”

Twelve fast hours make the daytime, So, my child, I say to you: Some is work-time, some is play-time. Do what you have got to do; For though fast you run down-hill, Time is running faster still.

— Frank Ellis, in Cassell's Little Folks.