“Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.”

—  Abraham Cowley

Book I, lines 361-362
See also "One of our poets (which is it?) speaks of an everlasting now", Robert Southey, The Doctor, chap. xxv. p. 1
Davideis (1656)

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