 | 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.... | |
 | Timothy Dwight Sprague - American periodicals - 1847 - 408 pages
...Bible, wrote upon a blank leaf these lines: — " Even such is lime, that takes on trust Our life, our joys, our all we have. And pays us but with age and dust : Who in the dark and silent grave, Where we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave,... | |
 | 1847 - 1230 pages
...Bible, wrote upon a blank leaf these lines: — " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our life, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust : Who in the dark and silent i;rave, Where we have wandered nil our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from thisearth, this... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Mark Napier - 1848 - 446 pages
...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 we have wandered all our ways, SI ml s up the story of our days : But from that earth, that grave and dust, . The Lord lhatt raite... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...prospect of death : — Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we hare, d hasten them, with the sway of friends, cither to...ambitious and mercenary, or ¡gnorantly zealous div Miuta up the story of our days 1 While in prison in expectation of death, either on this or the former... | |
 | 1851 - 608 pages
...interest from the circumstances under which it was written : — " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust !" Such were the last notes of the last as well as the greatest... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 874 pages
...room, or in the world, he wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible : — " Even such ia 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 ! " The chief memorial of the Lieutenant's Lodgings refers also to the reign of James. In a room on... | |
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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 earth 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... 
