How slow the shadow creeps: but when ’tis past How · Hilaire Belloc

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How slow the shadow creeps: but when ’tis past How fast the shadows fall. How fast! How fast!

Time and Its Passage

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Hilaire Belloc

1870-07-27 — 1953-07-16 · La Celle-Saint-Cloud

Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc was a prolific Anglo-French writer, historian, poet, and political activist. Known for his witty and often controversial writings, Belloc produced an enormous body of work across various genres, including essays, novels, historical studies, and humorous verse. He was a devout Catholic and a staunch critic of secularism and socialism, advocating for a distributist economic model. His poems, particularly those with a satirical or nonsensical bent, remain popular.