Great Regulars: Here is a poem that demonstrates how much

can be done in just two lines. This epigram by British poet Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) will revive Slate's custom of occasionally presenting a classic in the "Poem" column.

Landor refreshes one of the great clichés--that time has wings and flies--with the observation that sometimes a wing is used not only for flying but for flicking water.

from Robert Pinsky: Slate: "On Love, on Grief"

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