This, too, shall pass...

The Japanese lanterns outside my favorite burger place, once green, have now turned orange.  And the morning sun is already rising so much later in the day: clearly summer, once again, is drawing to a close. As the old hymn says, "Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away."  But I think I like Abraham Lincoln's take on it better:

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: "And this, too, shall pass away." How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"