 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...  Laconics; or, The best words of the best authors [ed. by J. Timbs]. 1st Amer. ed - Page 109by Laconics - 1829Full view - About this book
 | Robert Aspland - 1842 - 846 pages
...Tyller, Esq.,FRS 12mo, 3rd ed., p. 357.] E'EN such is time ! who takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust : Who...days! But from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord will raise me up, I trust. HISTORY AND PROSPECTS OF (AMERICAN) UNITARIANISM. £Under a title,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...to this, another to that wall, 'Tis the same error that deludes them all." HORACE. ALMANACS. " Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our...dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our days, Shuts up the story of our days." RALEIGH. " Time is the stuff life is made of." YODNO. • ALMANACS,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...following verses in prospect of death : — Kven such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our juys, u { ? }䓏 W x S }p stury of our days ! While in prison in expectation of death, cither on this or the former occasion,... | |
 | 1891 - 850 pages
...last brave smile. Then the famous prisoner takes up a pen and writes his farewell verses : — Even such is Time, that takes on 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 wardered all our ways, Shuts up the... | |
 | American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...youth." The verses, which breathe a spirit of the most unshaken fortitude, end thus, — " Even sur.h is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with nge and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | 1907 - 848 pages
...only at last to Inscribe on the fly-leaf of his Bible the night before execution:— Time takes In trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust. But there are some among us who can add with him— But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My... | |
 | 1907 - 850 pages
...only at last to Inscribe on the fly-leaf of his Bible the night before execution:— Time takes In trust Our youth, our Joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust. But there are some among us who can add with him— But from this earth, this grave, this dust My God... | |
 | Patrick Fraser Tytler - Biography & Autobiography - 1844 - 430 pages
...blank leaf these few lines : — " E'en such is time ! who takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust : Who, in the dark ana silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ! But from this... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1845 - 440 pages
...to this, another to that wall, 'Tie the same error that deludes them all." HORACE. ALMANACS. " Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our...dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our days, Shuts up the story of our days." RALEIGH. " Time is the stuff life is made of." YOUHG. ALMANACS,... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1845 - 482 pages
...sailor, statesman, poet — the universal Raleigh, who was then in the sixty-seventh year of his " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...: Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* King James made a merit of this* execution... | |
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