1. Study

We are but minutes, little things, Each one furnished with sixty wings With which we fly on unseen track, And not a minute e'er comes back.

We are but minutes, use us well; For of our use you must one day tell. Who uses minutes has hours to use; Who loses minutes years must lose.

Why are minutes called "little things"? What are the "sixty wings"? What do we mean when we say "the minutes fly"?

Explain the last line of the first stanza.

In what ways may we use minutes well? Tell some ways in which minutes are lost. Explain the last two lines.

Study this rhyme so well that you can write it in your notebook from memory.

2. Word Studies

What does unseen mean? Which part of the word means not?

Place un before these words and tell what they mean: happy common tried lucky.

fastened fortunate known dressed.

Find a list of words in your reader in which un means not.

What does e'er mean? Why is the apostrophe used in it?

3. Rhyme

What lines in each stanza rhyme? Write the pairs of rhymes and add a third word to rhyme with each pair.