“Yes, Time—all-healing Time—Time, great Philanthropist!—Time must befriend these thralls!" --Herman Melville, Mardi: and a Voyage Thither
"Yes! Time, the inexorable,—Time the physician and the conqueror,—Time the hopeful, rolls on, dragging us at his chariot wheels, wounded, suffering, unpitied,—but living still!" -- Scenes Beyond the Western Border, July 1852; and Scenes and Adventures in the Army
Yes, Time to personify Time when writing of sufferers in bondage: in
Mardi, manacled slaves; in "Scenes Beyond the Western Border," noble but defeated souls "chained to the rock" of mundane existence--like Andromeda or Prometheus.
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