LESSON 65 TIME FLIES

TIME FLIES

sec-onds strength run-ning

min-utes twelve fas-ten

Sixty seconds make a minute,

　So my father used to say:

What you've got to do, begin it,

　Or 'twill not be done to-day:

For so fast the seconds fly,

　You can't catch one—nor can I.

Sixty minutes make an hour,

　So my mother used to tell:

While you've got the strength and power,

　Do your work and do it well;

Or at night you'll have to say,

　"I've done nothing all the day."

Twelve fast hours make the daytime,

　So, my child, I say to you:

Some is work-time, some is play-time;

　Do what you have got to do;

For though fast you run down hill,

　Time is running faster still.