“Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done.”

—  Adelaide Anne Procter

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 583.

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English poet and songwriter 1825–1864

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