Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time with a gift of tears,
Grief with a glass that ran.
Source: Atalanta in Calydon, Chorus, `Before the Beginning of Years'
-- Algernon Charles Swinburne, (Apr 5 1837-1909), English poet, critic; He was the symbol of mid-Victorian poetic revolt due to his outstanding prosodic innovations, e.g., insistent alliteration and sheer melodiousness.