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Columbine. — ‘ The folly of delay' 
Procrastination has been well defined as the £ thief of Time,’ for 
that which is delayed from day to day is too frequently neglected 
altogether. 
o 
Oh ! it is strange how man will dream, 
Of coming years, — of joy, and fame, 
That speak of glory’s distant beam, — 
Encircling with its light his name,— 
And tell of pleasures yet to be, 
Hid in a dim futurity; — 
Will wile his present hours away, 
In useless indolence and ease, 
Still whispering to himself, ‘A day 
Of brighter joys and hopes than these 
Upon my life will yet arise, 
And yield what now stern fate denies; ’ 
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