• Time is hastening on, and we What our fathers are shall be,-- Shadow-shapes of memory! Joined to that vast multitude Where the great are but the good.

    John Greenleaf Whittier: Time is hastening on, and we
What our fathers are shall be,--
Shadow-shapes of memory!
Joined to that vast multitude
Where the great are but the good.
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.174