 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.  The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 55by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Universities and colleges - 1885 - 482 pages
...regret, what resolute good cheer he proclaimed to all on whom the hand of Time had fallen heavily. " It is time to be old, To take in sail ; — The God of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Game to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! There's not enough for this and that, Make thy... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...account of geography, language, or legends, but in all utters the same instinct 1876. TERMINUS. ris time to be old, To take in sail:— The god of bounds,...rounds, And said: " No more! No farther shoot Thy hroud ambitious branches, and thy root, Fancy departs: no more invent; Contract thy firmament To compass... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 342 pages
...wisdom is, Thy thrift, the sleep of cares ; For a proud idleness like this Crowns all thy mean affairs. TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal zounds, ' And said : ' No more ! / No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root Fancy... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 230 pages
...old in faculty, and yielded a cheerful submission to the inevitable dispensation in his swan-song, "Terminus": " It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds Who sets to sea a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...account of geography, language, or legends, but in all utters the same instinct 1876. TERMINUS. ris time to be old, To take in sail: — The god of bounds, Who sets to sens u shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: "No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 232 pages
...Swan-song, " Terminus " : " It is time to be old, To take in sail:— The god of bounds Who sets to sea a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | George Colfax Baldwin - 1888 - 304 pages
...the Holy Ghost." PART FOURTH. THE END. " The things concerning me have an end." — LUKE 22: 31. " The God of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me, on his fated rounds, And said, ' No more,' ' So more ' I " ' No longer spread thy broad ambitious branches,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - Authors, American - 1888 - 228 pages
...swan-song, " Terminus " : " It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds Who sets to sea a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more 1 No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract... | |
 | Louisa May Alcott - Authors, American - 1889 - 436 pages
...author to the lasting gratitude of her country, that praise and reward belong to LOUISA MAY ALCOTT. TERMINUS. It is time to be old, To take in sail :...invent, Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent. There 's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two ; Economize the failing river,... | |
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