 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
 | 1840 - 406 pages
...lady had taken leave of him, he wrote the following verses on a hlank leaf of his Bihle : — " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us hut with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1841 - 918 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 the... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 686 pages
...poet — the universal Raleigh, who was then in the sixty-seventh year of his age : — " Even such il 9Ṃ A a+ e & t D ^BS K8 7/ s K y L M _ X 0 3 vays us '""• with aye au'l dust: Who,' in the dark and silent grave, When wo have wander'd all cur... | |
 | 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... | |
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