The Dolliver Romance and Other Pieces Section XI - Time's Portraiture - Address

In which Time, no longer a grave ancient with scythe and hour-glass, comes tripping through Salem in the brisk apparel and gossiping temper of the present hour. Yet beneath his airy manners there steals a darker admonition, that this familiar companion of our days is but a mutable old deceiver, to be endured wisely and trusted never too far.