 | Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...Even such is Time, who takes in trust Our youth, our joys, 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 shall raise me up, I trust." Sir Walter Ralegh was sixty-six... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 pages
...statesman, poet — the universal Raleigh, who was then in the sixty-seventh year of his age:— " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* King James made a merit of this execution with the court of Spain : the people set it down to his eternal... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...night before his death. They will show you that he was a poet as well as a fine prose writer. Ev'n such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...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 dust,... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fugitive slaves - 1855 - 338 pages
...himself a short time before his death : " Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joy, 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." f Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 588 pages
...were found these verses, written the night before : " Even bin-it is Time, that takee on trust Oar youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." There are no details to supply a delineation of Raleigh's daily and familiar life. Of his personal... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...that hath been communicated in any age since the Apostles' time. — Clarendon. CCCCXII. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...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 dust,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...he mows down all alike — the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys,...Who, in the dark and silent grave, . "When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...he mows down all alike — the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys,...; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 426 pages
...he mows down all alike — the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys,...; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time... | |
 | M. A. Thomson - 1856 - 318 pages
...best collection of Ralegh's works : — Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, ourjoys, 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! * Polio edition of Ralegh, viii. 739. t Note... | |
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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... 
