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" 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... "
Willis's Current Notes: A Series of Articles on Antiquities, Biography ... - Page 77
by George Willis - 1853
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Life of Sir Walter Raleigh, Founded on Authentic and Original Documents

Patrick Fraser Tytler - Explorers - 1853 - 454 pages
...taking his Bible he wrote on a blank leaf these few Last lines. lines : — " 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 wander'd all our ways, Shuts...
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CURRENT NOTES: A SERIES OF ARTICLES ON ANTIQUITIES, BIOGRAPHY, HERALRY ...

G. WILLIS - 1854
...piece of paper he wrote — On the Smijfofa Candía. Cowards fear to die, but courage stout, Rucher than live in snuff, will be put out. And in his Bible,...which takes in trust, Our Youth, our Joys, and all we huve, And pays us nought but Age und Dust, When in the dark and silent grave : When we have wandred...
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The Life and Times of Sir Walter Ralegh: With Copious Extracts from His ...

Charles Whitehead - Great Britain - 1854 - 346 pages
...with him in the Gate-house. He wrote them the night before he suffered : — " Even such is Time, who takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with earth and dust ; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts...
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The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society ..., Volume 3

Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 574 pages
...before his death, hs wrote these lines on a blank leaf of his Bible : — " E'en such U 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, \Vhen we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts...
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History of North Carolina: with Maps and Illustrations, Volume 1

Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1857 - 274 pages
...will proceed with our story. It consists of the lines found written by Raleigh in his bible : " E'en such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all tve have 1 And pays us naught but age and dust, Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 45

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1858 - 638 pages
...found after it in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster": " Even such is time, which takes on trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us naught but age and dust, And in the dark and silent grave, When wo have wandered all our ways, Shuts...
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History of North Carolina: With Maps and Illustrations, Volume 1

Francis Lister Hawks - North Carolina - 1859 - 274 pages
...will proceed with our story. It consists of the lines found written by Raleigh in his bible : " E'en such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have 1 And pays us naught but age and dust, Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all...
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The wild garland; or, Curiosities of poetry, selected by I.J. Reeve, Volume 1

Isaac Jack Reeve - 1865 - 232 pages
...day of judgment will make clear, 'Twas very cheap, or very dear. In Sir Walter Raleigh's Bible were found the following verses : Even such is Time, which...days : And from which grave, and Earth, and Dust, Fly-leaf inscription on the title-page of "The Psraphrase of Erasmus upon the Newe Testament (1548),...
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Prince Charles and the Spanish Marriage: 1617-1623: A Chapter of ..., Volume 1

Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Espanya - 1869 - 508 pages
...lines in which the higher part of his nature alone is visible :— " Even such is time that takes on 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...
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The Afternoon Lectures on Literature & Art

Art - 1869 - 384 pages
...the Christian poet, even though he utters almost the same lament : — "Even soe is Time who takes on trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us back with age and dust, And in the cold and silent grave, When we have wandered all our wayes, Makes...
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