Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.


Hyperion, a Romance (ed. 1848)


Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one...

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one...

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one...

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one...