 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...— the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " 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."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time seems to have been the sun-dial. Allusion to its use is to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...— the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " 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."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time seems to have been the sun-dial. Allusion to its use is to... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...— the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " 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."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time seems to have been the sun-dial. Allusion to its use is to... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...supplying the closure for all our stories: Oh, cruel time! which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who...wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days. "Shuts up the story of our days" - an echo of "Time drives the flock from field to fold" in "The Nymph's... | |
 | I.E. Wickramasekera - Psychology - 1988 - 338 pages
...which takes in trust Our youth, and joys, and all we have; And pays us but with age and dust, Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days: And from which earth and grave and dust The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. —Sir Walter Raleigh... | |
 | Vera Brittain - Authors, English - 1994 - 676 pages
...Sir Walter Raleigh's farewell verses kept beating through my brain : Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust. In July we closed the flat, and went for a " holiday " in Cornwall through a melancholy... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...wit, And dries all wantonness with it. O cruel Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. THE LIE Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless arrant: Fear not to touch the best; The truth... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...OBEV; OBSC; PoE; PPP; RB; SeCePo; SiPS; TrGrPo; WeW Even Such Is Time 3 Even such is time that takes in dare (1. 1—3) 4 But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up. I trust. (1. 7—8)... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...MADE THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS BEHEADING Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have. And pays us but with age and dust; Who...wandered all our ways. Shuts up the story of our days: And from which earth, and grave, and dust. The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. Mary Sidney Herbert,... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...his death, Sir Walter Raleigh left this version of his earlier poem: Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.2 SamueCjacfa<m%pnda([(l828-l89Q),... | |
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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... 
