 EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this...  Familiar Quotations: A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced ... - Page 261903 - 1158 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Sir Henry Wotton - 1845 - 236 pages
...And pays us but with [Earth] and Dust ; Who, in the dark and silent Grave, [s] (When we have wandred all our ways,) Shuts up the story of our days : But...Grave, this Dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust! WK [VAHIAT1ONS.— 1. 'which'— A. ' who'— B. ' in trust'— AB C.— S. 'our age' — C. 'and all'—... | |
 | Rose Ellen Temple - 1846 - 984 pages
...contemplated her fate — that fate, to be an old maid. CHAPTER XIII. Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. RALEIGH'S Jant Lines. When life appears fleeting before the child of clay, — when visions not of... | |
 | 412 pages
...which breathe a spirit of the most unshaken fortitude, end thus, — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust !" But these were not... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - America - 1846 - 384 pages
...: Kven such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us with but age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When...days ! But from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. Early the next morning he received the holy communion from the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...composed the following verses in prospect of death : — i Even such is Time, that takes on trust Oar 1 While in prison in expectation of death, either on this or the former occasion, he wrote also a tender... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...the same error that deludes them all." HORACE. ALMANACS. " Even such is Time, that takes oil tract, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us...dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our days, Shuts up the story of our days." RALEIOH. " Time is the stuff life is made of." YOUNG. ALMANACS,... | |
 | English poetry - 1847 - 178 pages
...thee who will, No stab the soul can kill! The night before his Death. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have xvandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days! But from this earth, this grave, this dust.... | |
 | Sir Walter Raleigh - America - 1848 - 342 pages
...out." Verses found in his Bible, in the Gatehouse at Westminster. " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...dust, Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 450 pages
...such is Time ; who takes in trust Our youth, our joya, and all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When...our ways, Shuts up the story of our days : But from that earth, that grave and dust, The Lord thatt raise me up, I trutt. These lines express the resignation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...execution, he composed the following verses in prospect of death : — Even such is Time, that takes on had way a, >tjiuts up the story of our days ! While in prison in expectation of death, either on this or... | |
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