 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...  The New Annual Register, Or General Repository of History, Politics, and ... - Page 741824Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 214 pages
...pointed out, where hundreds of the dead were promiscuously thrown into a pit : " E'en such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we...and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we hare wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." We have now brought to conclusion this... | |
 | Thomas Roscoe - 1839 - 256 pages
...same great terminus. As the gallant Sir Walter Raleigh writes — " 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." MER S E. Г LIVERPOOL. ON the eastern bank... | |
 | 1840 - 406 pages
...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
...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...dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days!" The chief memorial of the Lieutenant's Lodgings... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Great Britain - 1841 - 686 pages
...the universal Raleigh, who was then in the sixty-seventh year of his age : — " Even such il Time, eat persons that steered the public affairs to be an instrume 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 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 dust,... | |
 | William Goodman - Great Britain - 1844 - 378 pages
...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 joys, our all...; Who, in the 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."... | |
 | 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 wandered all our ways, Shuts up the stury of our days ! While in prison in expectation of death, cither... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1891 - 850 pages
...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... | |
| |
