Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton Quote

The ages roll
Forward; and forward with them draw my soul
Into Time's infinite sea.
And to be glad or sad I care no more;
But to have done and to have been before
I cease to do and be!


The Wanderer, Book iv, Stanza 9, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).


The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time's infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to...

The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time's infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to...

The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time's infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to...

The ages roll Forward; and forward with them draw my soul Into Time's infinite sea. And to be glad or sad I care no more; But to have done and to...