“The stars are dead. The animals will not look.
We are left alone with our day, and the time is short, and
History to the defeated
May say Alas but cannot help nor pardon.”

"The Dehumanisation of Art"; Ortega y Gasset later used this passage in The Revolt of the Masses (1929), quoting it in Ch. III: The Height Of The Times
The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel (1925)
Context: This grave dissociation of past and present is the generic fact of our time and the cause of the suspicion, more or less vague, which gives rise to the confusion characteristic of our present-day existence. We feel that we actual men have suddenly been left alone on the earth; that the dead did not die in appearance only but effectively; that they can no longer help us. Any remains of the traditional spirit have evaporated. Models, norms, standards are no use to us. We have to solve our problems without any active collaboration of the past, in full actuality, be they problems of art, science, or politics. The European stands alone, without any living ghosts by his side; like Peter Schlehmil he has lost his shadow. This is what always happens when midday comes.

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

The Transhumanism Handbook, 2019

The Rev^d Wicks Cherrycoke, Christ and History
Source: Mason & Dixon (1997), Ch. 35

Source: The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Part I, line 417.
The Grave (1743)

Source: A Long Search for Information (2004), p. 29.

Congress gets a vacation, but what about the troops? http://www.rawstory.com/exclusives/contributors/lame_vacations_1129.htm.

The Paradox of Time http://books.google.com/books?id=KW4NAAAAYAAJ&q="time+goes+you+say+ah+no+alas+time+stays+we+go"&pg=PA175#v=onepage (1886).