Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,
  Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
    And marching single in an endless file,
      Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;
        To each they offer gifts after his will,
          Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;
            I, in my pleached garden watched the pomp
              Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
                Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
                  Turned and departed silent.  I too late
                    Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
 — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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