For A-Rod: It's Adelaide Anne Procter Time

(Victorian poetess, no relation to Scott)

“THE PRESENT”
(Written in 1886)

DO not crouch to-day, and worship

The old Past, whose life is fled,

Hush your voice to tender reverence;

Crowned he lies, but cold and dead:

For the Present reigns our monarch,

With an added weight of hours;

Honour her, for she is mighty!

Honour her, for she is ours!