Abstract
Old-fashioned uncouth measurer of the day, I love to watch thy filtering burthen pass; Though some there are that live would bid thee stay; But these view reasons through a different glass From him, Time's meter, who addresses thee. [...]jog thou on, through hours of doom'd distress; So haste thou on the glimpse of hopes to come; As every sand-grain counts a trouble less, As every drain'd glass leaves me nearer home. 'To an Hour-glass' is one of many poems in The Village Minstrel referencing time in its title or content, whether clock, calendar or natural time.