Ecclesiastes 3 King James Version (KJV)

3 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

Ecclesiastes! A good book, and I think a lot of people in our field could relate to it a little:

"Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity."

This is so appropriate for Hagoromo's story.

Love the quotation, and also didn't realize it came from a Bible verse originally.

That's not the original source though, FYI.

To go one level deeper: It's actually an old Pete Seeger folk song.

So the Byrds were covering a Pete Seeger song, who used lyrics by Ecclesiastes.

It probably is the source of those particular words in Modern English in that particular arrangement. Something very close appears in Wycliffe's Bible and starts like this:

Alle thingis han tyme, and alle thingis vndur sunne passen bi her spaces.

See https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_%28Wycliffe%29/Ecclesia....