It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs and telling the lapse of the hour which like a billow has rolled us onward towards the grave.

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs and telling the lapse of the hour which like a billow has rolled us onward towards the grave.
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It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs and telling the lapse of the hour which like a billow has rolled us onward towards the grave. Washington Irving

It is almost startling to hear this warning of departed time sounding among the tombs and telling the lapse of the hour which like a billow has rolled us onward towards the grave.
Washington Irving