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William Robert Spencer
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“Too late I stayed,—forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.”
William Robert Spencer (1770–1834) said by 1834 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lines to Lady A. Hamilton, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time", William Shakespeare, All's Well that Ends Well, Act v. Scene 3.