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ON TIME!.*

FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race;
Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours,
Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace;
And glut thyself with what thy womb devours,
Which is no more then what is false and vain,
And merely mortal dross;
So little is our loss,
So little is thy gain!.
For when, as each thing bad thou hast entomb'd
And last of all thy greedy self consumed,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss,
With an individual kiss;
And Joy shall overtake us, as a flood,
When every thing that is sincerely good,
And perfectly divine,
With truth, and peace, and love, shall ever shine,
About the supreme throne
Of Him, to whose happy-making sight, alone,
When once our heavenly-guided soul shall climb,
Then all this earthly grossness quit,
Attired with stars, we shall for ever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee, O Time!

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
The poem is speaking to how we rush and chase after things that are meaningless in this short time on earth!. When in the end we are greeted with long eternity's bliss(death)!. Then we will be reunited with God(supreme throne) and be happy

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Hi, well The poem is about Life!. How humans shouldn't give up and try their hardest !. Then it says we should be happy, if we all
tell the truth ,be happy ,never gave up and then the world would
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C'mon! C'mon!
I wanna get to Heaven!Www@QuestionHome@Com