If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick th… - Anna Sewell

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If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.

Anna Sewell

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Anna Sewell (30 March 1820 – 25 April 1878) was an English novelist. She is well known as the author of the 1877 children's novel Black Beauty, one of the top ten best selling novels for children ever written.

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