 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
 | John Bigelow - France - 1913 - 632 pages
...private approbation of friends and the public sanction become most desirable. The God Terminus says: It is time to be old, To take in sail; The God of Bounds Came to me in his rounds And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy branches or thy roof. " Ever yours... | |
 | Philosophical Society of Aberdeen - Philosophy - 1910 - 346 pages
...glorified commonsense, that wisdom " whose ways are ways of pleasantness, and all whose paths are peace." It is time to be old, -To take in sail. The God of...invent, Contract thy firmament To compass of a tent." As a bird trims her to the gale, I trim myeolf to the storm of time : I man the rudder, reef the sail,... | |
 | Sir William Robertson Nicoll - Age - 1910 - 358 pages
...Emerson was sixty-three years old when he read to his son the poem he called " Terminus," beginning : " It is time to be old, To take in sail. The God of...Came to me in his fatal rounds And said, ' No more ! ' " Dr. Chalmers was sixty-three in the year of the Disruption. In February, 1868, Disraeli succeeded... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - American poetry - 1912 - 696 pages
...to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, 15 The youth replies. / can. TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: The...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds 5 And said: "No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches and thy root. Fancy departs: no... | |
 | Roy Bennett Pace - American literature - 1915 - 680 pages
...; 60 Woe and want thou canst outsleep ; Want and woe, which torture us, Thy sleep makes ridiculous. Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail : —...sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, 6 And said : ' No more I No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs... | |
 | 1885 - 720 pages
...guidance. He retired from active practice several years ago, when he had come to feel, with Emerson, "It is time to be old, To take in sail; The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!" " • * 1 «• 576 REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. Mendota, 11l., and graduated in medinine at Rush Medical... | |
 | Percy Holmes Boynton - American poetry - 1918 - 746 pages
...last He will spell in the sculpture, "Stay." 1846. Atlantic Monthly, Dec., 1866. creep, TERMINUS 1 It is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god...departs : no more invent ; Contract thy firmament I0 To compass of a tent. There's not enough for this and that, Make thy option which of two; Economize... | |
 | American literature - 1867 - 856 pages
...North Village ; and as for Dave, he and I have struck ile. I 'm going out to look at our property now." TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail :...to me in his fatal rounds, And said, " No more ! No further spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root ; Fancy departs : no more invent, Contract... | |
 | Various - Poetry - 1996 - 496 pages
...know, That in the wild turmoil, 35 Horsed on the Proteus, Thou ridest to power, And to endurance. 1860 TERMINUS It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, 5 Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches,... | |
| |
