 | William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd — and they were gone. Bead, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ; A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No med'cine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | William Cowper - 1837 - 436 pages
...gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd, — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the aweful truth With which I charge my page ! A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health insure For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | William Cowper - 1841 - 240 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No med'cine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | William Cowper - 1847 - 556 pages
...have I seen, I pass'd — and they were gone. ' Composed for Iobn Cox, parish cl Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page) A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No med'cine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1849 - 740 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd, — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ! A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health insure For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 pages
...us all. The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, 1 passed — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft can cure Can... | |
 | Samuel Green - 1850 - 392 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless have I seen ; I pass'd, and they were gone. Read, ye that-run, the awful truth With which I charge my page : A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health insure For yet an hour to come; No medicine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 476 pages
...The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awfdl truth With which I charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
 | Daniel Newham - Hymns, English - 1850 - 336 pages
...our life secure, And save us from the tomb. 4 Lord, may we mark the awful truth, ReveaPd in sacred page ; — A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 450. Judgment. (Rev. xi. 18.) 4th PM 1 GREAT GOD ! what do I see and hear ! The end of things created... | |
 | William Hastings Kelke - Cemeteries - 1851 - 206 pages
...grave may yawn for you. 396. Read, ye that run, this awful truth, Soon must ye quit life's stage ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 397. O Reader, ere the darksome tomb Shall cover thee from every eye, To thee may heavenly wisdom come... | |
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I pass'd, — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ! A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 
