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all the clocks in the city
Began to whirr and chime:
“O let not Time deceive you,
You cannot conquer Time. - W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
Attribution: W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden (1907–1973), Anglo-American poet, essayist. As I Walked Out One Evening (l. 21–24). . . Juvenilia; Poems, 1922-1928 [W. H. Auden]. Katherine Bucknell, ed. (1994) Princeton University Press.

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