minutes (n.)
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day, and the race a life.
I 'll put a girdle round about the earth
In forty minutes.
Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
