 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
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...hath been communicated in any age since the Apostles' time. — Clarendon. CCCCXII. 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 ! But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...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, our joys, our all...; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 378 pages
...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, our joys, our all...dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* The earliest expedient for reckoning time... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1856 - 588 pages
...were found these verses, written the night before : " Even bin-it is Time, that takee on trust Oar youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but...dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." There are no details to supply a delineation... | |
 | Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...supplying the closure for all our stories: Oh, cruel time! which 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. "Shuts up the story of our days" - an echo of... | |
 | Vera Brittain - Authors, English - 1994 - 676 pages
...Sir Walter Raleigh's farewell verses kept beating through my brain : Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust. In July we closed the flat, and went for a " holiday " in Cornwall through a melancholy... | |
 | Poetry - 460 pages
...wit, And dries all wantonness with it. O cruel Time, which 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. THE LIE Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...OBEV; OBSC; PoE; PPP; RB; SeCePo; SiPS; TrGrPo; WeW Even Such Is Time 3 Even such is time that takes in dare (1. 1—3) 4 But from this earth, this grave, this dust. My God shall raise me up. I trust. (1. 7—8)... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...MADE THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS BEHEADING Even such is Time, which 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: And from which earth, and grave, and dust. The... | |
 | William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...his death, Sir Walter Raleigh left this version of his earlier poem: 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 wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. And from which earth, and grave, and dust, The... | |
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