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[Hat tip Black and Gold Poetry]

 

The Hugh Laurie quote above offers somewhat similar advice to Conary's poem, below. Stephen Hicks has two stories that bear on both...

The Clock of Life, by Wilfred Grindle Conary

The clock of life is wound but once
And no man has the power
To tell just where the hands will stop,
At late or early hour.
To lose one’s wealth is sad indeed,
To lose one’s health is more.
To lose one’s soul is such a loss
As no man can restore.
The present only is our own.
Live, love, toil with a will.
Place no faith in ‘tomorrow’
For the clock may then be still.