Laudator Temporis Acti

Augustine, Sermons 124.4 (Patrologia Latina, vol. 38, col. 688; tr. Edmund Hill):

What does long mean, when the end has come? Nobody can call back yesterday; tomorrow is treading on the heels of today, to get it over with. In this short space let us live good lives, so that we may go to that wide open space where we won't be got over with: Even now as I speak, we are of course getting on with it. Words run on, and time flies; so do our years, so do our actions, so do our honors, so does our unhappiness, so does this happiness of ours. It's all getting on, soon to be over and done with; but don't let's be alarmed: The Word of the Lord abides for ever.

Quid diu est, ubi finis est? Hesternum diem nemo revocat: hodiernus crastino urgetur, ut transeat. Ipso parvo spatio bene vivamus, ut illo eamus unde non transeamus. Et modo cum loquimur, utique transimus. Verba currunt, et horae volant; sic aetas nostra, sic actus nostri, sic honores nostri, sic miseria nostra, sic ista felicitas nostra. Totum transit, sed non expavescamus: Verbum Domini manet in aeternum.

Edmund Hill knew more Latin than I ever will, but sometimes I wonder. For example, "It's all getting on, soon to be over and done with" seems a bit much for "Totum transit".