"No star is ever lost ...."

No star is ever lost we once have seen,

We always may be what we might have been.

Adelaide Anne Procter

"One by one the sands are flowing ...."

One by one the sands are flowing, 

One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all.

Hours are golden links, God's token

Reaching heaven; but one by one

Take them, lest the chain be broken

Ere the pilgrimage be done.

Adelaide Anne Procter