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Measure Of Time

 EROS, what mean'st thou by this? In each of thine hands is an 
hourglass!

What, oh thou frivolous god! twofold thy measure of time?
"Slowly run from the one, the hours of lovers when parted;

While through the other they rush swiftly, as soon as they meet."

 1789.*

Poem by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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