"Oh seize the instant time; you never will With waters once passed by impel the mill."
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Poems (Ed. 1865), p. 303. Proverbs, Turkish and Persian.
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Richard Chenevix Trench
Richard Chenevix Trench (9 September 1807 β 28 March 1886) was an Irish poet, and the Anglican archbishop of Dublin.
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