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 245by Louise Creighton - 1877 - 270 pagesFull view - About this book
| English poetry - 1847 - 178 pages
...than stabbing ; Yet stab at thee who will, No stab the soul can kill! 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 xvandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...body. The night before his execution, he composed the following verses in prospect of death : — Eren n paneguries, in theatres, porches, or what other place or way may win most paye us but with age and duet ; Who in the dark and silent grave. When we hare wandered all our ways,... | |
| William Goodman - Great Britain - 1847 - 376 pages
...the same error that deludes them all." HORACE. ALMANACS. " Even such is Time, that takes oil tract, 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 days, Shuts up the... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...composed the following verses in prospect of death : — i Even such is Time, that takes on trust Oar age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave. When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story... | |
| Sir Walter Raleigh - America - 1848 - 342 pages
...live in snuff, will be put out." Verses found in his Bible, in the Gatehouse at Westminster. " 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... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...body. The night before his execution, he composed the following verses in prospect of death : — Even the rate — age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our way a, >tjiuts up the... | |
| 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, 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... | |
| 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, 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... | |
| 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 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... | |
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