“Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the raindrop plows.”

— Thomas Hardy

" During Wind and Rain http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/96.html", lines 27-28, from Moments of Vision (1917)

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“Ah, no; the years, the years;
Down their carved names the raindrop plows.”