 Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age 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...  Life of Sir Walter Ralegh - Page 247by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1907 - 584 pages
...effect, in union with interchanging rhymes, as in Sir Walter Raleigh's ' Even such is Time, that takes in trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...concern to Christians. *29, 1618. SIR WALTER RALEIGH BEHEADED. Written the Night before his Death. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, (When we have wandered all our ways) Shuts up the... | |
 | 1828 - 454 pages
...smart, Dry up my tears, and dwell within my hearl! SIR WALTER RALEGH, THB NIGHT BE FORK HIS DK1TB. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we hav«, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered... | |
 | 1822 - 962 pages
...Even such is time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joyg, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways Shuts up the story of our days I But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
 | England - 1823 - 478 pages
...Raleigh's heroism does not fade. The night before his execution he wrote these lines in his Bible : Even such is time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways Shuts up the story... | |
 | Cabinet - Literature - 1824 - 440 pages
...compose those verses on his death, which being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1824 - 468 pages
...his death, which VOL. II. (New Series.) K being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1824 - 506 pages
...bard," from the single composition of " Verses on "his Death," which has such lines as these : " E'en such is time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the... | |
 | English poetry - 1824 - 856 pages
...those verses on his death, which being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. " Even such isTime, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wamter'd all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
 | Celebrities - 1823 - 270 pages
...appropriate mayhe repeated. And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, " Even such is Time, that takes on trust. Our youth, our joys, our all we have, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1" He has added two other lines... | |
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