| Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895. |
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| Time and Death |
| | | William Henry Whitworth |
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| I SAW old Time, destroyer of mankind; | |
| Calm, stern, and cold he sate, and often shook | |
| And turn’d his glass, nor ever car’d to look | |
| How many of life’s sands were still behind. | |
| And there was Death, his page, aghast to find | 5 |
| How tremblingly, like aspens o’er a brook, | |
| His blunted dart fell harmless; so he took | |
| His master’s scythe, and idly smote the wind. | |
| Smite on, thou gloomy one, with powerless aim! | |
| For Sin, thy mother, at her dying breath | 10 |
| Wither’d that arm, and left thee but a name. | |
| Hope clos’d the grave, when He of Nazareth, | |
| Who led captivity His captive, came | |
| And vanquish’d the great conquerors, Time and Death. | |
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