“Out upon time! it will leave no more

Of the things to come than the things before!

Out upon time! who forever will leave

But enough of the past for the future to grieve

O’er that which hath been, and o’er that which must be;

What we have seen our sons shall see—

Remnants of things that have passed away,

Fragments of stone, reared by creatures of clay.”

Byron’s Siege of Corinth.