TIME

Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs: mine Have made my days and nights imperishable Endless, and all alike, as sands on the shore Innumerable atoms; and one desert Barren and cold, on which the wild waves break, But nothing rests, save carcases and wrecks, Rocks, and the salt-surf weeds of bitterness.

- Lord Byron, 'Manfred', 1817.

['Frenchman’s Bay, Mount Desert Island, Maine', Thomas Cole, 1844]:-