Start with etymology: Don’t neglect this passage, as you read on:Wherein mere time passes idly, like scumUpon the surface of still waters stirred By just alighted coots. They pass us byLike lives, like deaths unreflecting horsemenContemplate at one wise poet’s grey slate, Whilst under stills, the turbulent currentsPlay tuneful ditties and dirges both. SpendMore time … More The passage of time