Time after time

Incoming email! This one from Sue R, a past resident of a little island in the South China Sea. Thanks, Sue! For both the reception and content. Plus yr email signature at the end:

I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginnng and the end.
But I do not talk of the beginning or the end.

There was never any more inception than there is now,
Nor any more youth or age than there is now,
And will never be any more perfection than there is now,
Not any more of heaven or hell than there is now.
(Whitman)

For Leaves of Grass, Bartleby is yr friend
(section 14, line 31): bartleby
For Whitman, a good start is: Wikipedia

(Mister B: And now, for all those children who have been smitten and smote during the past week in Lebanon, they will never grow any older.)