Classic Poem

BUT why
Do the wing'd minutes fly
So fast away?
Stop your course, ye hasty hours,
And solicit all the powers
To let you stay.
For the earth could ne'er show forth
An object of a greater worth. 2nd Treble:

But why
Do the wing'd minutes fly
So fast away? 1st Treble:
It is because that they which follow
Crowd on to have a sight as well as they; 2nd Treble:
Hark how the ghosts of passed moments groan
'Cause they are gone;
And rail at Fate
And curse the date
Of their short lives expired so soon. Chorus:

Then stop your course, you hasty hours,
And solicit all the powers
To let you stay,
For the earth could ne'er show forth
An object of a greater worth.