 | English sacred lyrics - Christian poetry - 1884 - 296 pages
...oft doth think, must needs die well. VII. VERSES FOUND IN HIS BIBLE IN THE GATEHOUSE AT WESTMINSTER. EVEN such is time, which takes in trust Our youth,...all we have, And pays us nought but age and dust, Which in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days... | |
 | John George Edgar - Death - 1884 - 492 pages
...and wrote on a blank leaf the following beautiful and affecting 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 wandered all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - Devon (England) - 1893 - 640 pages
...from Harl. MS., 6917. The poem consists of six 6-line stanzas, the last of which runs thus : "Oh cruel Time, which takes in trust, Our youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; \Vno in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | Thomas Nadauld Brushfield - 1893 - 156 pages
...Harl. MS., 6917. The poem consists of six 6-line stanzas, the last of which runs thus : ' ' 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 wander'd all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | Samuel Rawson Gardiner - Great Britain - 1895 - 458 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... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1913 - 318 pages
...spirit found expression, upon the eve of the execution, in these simple yet exquisite lines : "E'en such is time! which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have ; And pays us naught but age and dust, Which, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, The... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...and cheerfully asked him how a man should kill time. «. RABELAIS— Works. Bk. TV. Ch. LXIII. E'en such is time ! which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have; And pays us naught but age and dust, Which, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | John Churton Collins - Bookbinding, Victorian - 1896 - 504 pages
...that takes in trust Our youth, our joyes, our all we have, And pays us but with Earth and Dust ; Who, in the dark and silent Grave, (When we have wandred 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 !... | |
 | Martin Andrew Sharp Hume - 1897 - 468 pages
...must have written the verse which was found in his Bible after his death. ' 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 wandered all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | John Fiske - Maryland - 1897 - 374 pages
...his Bible, shortly hefore his death, are worth remembering : — " Even such IB 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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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... 
