 EVEN such is time, that takes in 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...  London - Page 247edited by - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Shakspere. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days! But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up I trust? Sir W. Raleigh. Fly,... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...passed out of the world. After his death were found these verses, written the night before : — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dark and silent grave. When we have wandered all our waya, Shuts up the atory of our days." There are no details to supply a delineation of Raleigh's daily... | |
 | William Jerdan - 1853 - 476 pages
...Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us with but age and dnst ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days. — RALEIGH. I AM now warned that my task must come to a conclusion, and I have but a few memoranda... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from which grave, and earth, and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. RALEIGH. UNA AND... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 526 pages
...Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silenv grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I tni i . The poetical effusion... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...night before his death. They will show you that he was a poet as well as a fine prose writer. Ev'n such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust. And now I must tell... | |
 | William Wells Brown - Fugitive slaves - 1855 - 338 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." f Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets, -bows and arrows, and many instruments of torture,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...notify that he mows down all alike — the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth,...all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time seems to have been the sun-dial. Allusion to its use is to be... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - American essays - 1856 - 422 pages
...notify that he mows down all alike — the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth,...all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time seems to have been the sun-dial. Allusion to its use is to be... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...notify that he mows down all alike — the young, the refined and the vulgar, the good and the bad. " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth,...all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time seems to have been the sun-dial. Allusion to its use is to be... | |
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