L’Amour Fait Passer Le Temps.
To a Lady
On the Bas-Relief of Her Clock, Which, in Allu-
sion to the Motto Above, Represented a Cupid
Rowing Time in a Small Boat.
Love, says your artist, makes Time pass—1
’Tis pretty, but I doubt him.2
Dismiss that rowing boy, alas!3
Time pushes on without him.4
Careless alike of oar or skuller,5
He guides with fatal hand
6
A bark, which though the voyage be duller,7
Must reach the destined strand.8