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Father Time

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Father Time
personification of the old year. [Folklore: Misc.]
See : Age, Old

Father Time
classic personification of time with scythe and hourglass. [Art: Hall, 119]
See : Time


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But the fine old season meant well; and if he has not learned the secret how to bless men impartially, it is because his father Time, with ever-unrelenting unrelenting purpose, still hides that secret in his own mighty, slow-beating heart.
They gazed at one another, and fancied that some magic power had really begun to smooth away the deep and sad inscriptions which Father Time had been so long engraving on their brows.
Speaking from the lower regions, the tongue of Father Time told the hour before midnight.
 
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