 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 Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...body. The night before his execution, he composed the following verses in prospect of death : — Even poverty or youthful years call them importunately their several w hare, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1851 - 608 pages
...occasion, possesses a peculiar interest from the circumstances under which it was written : — " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...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 - 902 pages
...last night he spent in this room, or in the world, he wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible : — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 874 pages
...he spent in this 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...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... | |
 | Arethusa Hall - Readers - 1851 - 422 pages
...spreading it before her feet, enabled her to pass unsoiled." " Even such is time, that takes on trust Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days! " Our youth, our jovs, our all we have, And pays us back with :ipe and dust; LETTER TO HIS WIFE, WHEN... | |
 | English poetry - 1851 - 496 pages
...RALEIGH. Bonx, 1552; DIED, 1618. LINES COMPOSED THE XIGHT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, IX PBOSPECT OF DEATH. E'EN such is time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And paj-s us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England). - 1851 - 882 pages
...last night he spent in this room, or in the world, he wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible :— " Even such is Time, that takes on trust , Our youth, our joys, our all we hare, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...Time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, or all we have, And pays us but with age and (lust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our w&ys, Shuts up the etory of our days !' He has added two other lines expressive of his trust in his... | |
 | Thomas Miller - East India House (London, England) - 1852 - 316 pages
...— Dyer. The night before his execution he wrote the following lines in a leaf of the Bible: " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Russel, Sydney, Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Laud,... | |
 | William Wells Brown, William Farmer - Antislavery movements - 1852 - 354 pages
...himself a short time before his death : — " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth, our joy, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets, bows and arrows, and many instruments of torture, whose... | |
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