The Sun-Dial at Wells CollegeThe shadow by my finger castDivides the future from the past:Before it, sleeps the unborn hourIn darkness, and beyond thy power:Behind its unreturning line,The vanished hour, no longer thine:One hour alone is in thy hands,--The NOW on which the shadow stands.
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Henry Van Dyke was a 19th-century American diplomat. Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman. Read more on Wikipedia →