William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
"On Cant and Hypocrisy"
Men and Manners: Sketches and Essays (1852)
“Our life runs down in sending up the clock.
The brook runs down in sending up our life.
The sun runs down in sending up the brook.
And there is something sending up the sun.”
"West-running Brook
1920s
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