McGuffey Reader and Poetry Lesson 17

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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