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On Time by John Milton

Analysis

"On Time" is a poem written by John Milton that is essentially about surviving in a crazy world. So many things happen around the world, so we must keep living and doing our best until we run out of time.

"On Time" consists of a single stanza made up of twenty-two lines. Its rhyme scheme is ABABCDDCEEFFGGHHIIJKKJ.

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Poem

On Time
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Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race,
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy Plummets' pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more than what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross;
So little is our loss,
So little is thy gain.
For when as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd,
And last of all, thy greedy self consum'd,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss
With an individual kiss;
And Joy shall overtake us as a flood,
When every thing that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine
About the supreme Throne
Of Him, t'whose happy-making sight alone,
When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall climb,
Then all this earthly grossness quit,
Attir'd with Stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee O Time.
Next: Upon the Circumcision

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Nationality
English

Literary Movement
17th Century

Subjects
Time