McGuffey's Third Eclectic Reader

Lesson Xvii.

WHAT THE MINUTES SAY.

1. We are but minutes--little things! Each one furnished with sixty wings, With which we fly on our unseen track, And not a minute ever comes back.

2. We are but minutes; use us well, For how we are used we must one day tell. Who uses minutes, has hours to use; Who loses minutes, whole years must lose.

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