 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 cabinet history of England, an abridgment of the chapters entitled ... - Page 112by Charles MacFarlane - 1855Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1851 - 518 pages
...down to compose those verses on his death, which being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. 1 Even such is Time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, or all we have, And pays us but with age and (lust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have... | |
 | Thomas Miller - East India House (London, England) - 1852 - 316 pages
...grave." — Dyer. The night before his execution he wrote the following lines in a leaf of the Bible: " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Russel, Sydney, Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Laud, Davenant, and a score or more of others, whose names... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Anti-Catholicism - 1852 - 424 pages
...which he died, his corpse was found with the arms folded in the form of a cross over his breast. " Even such is Time; that takes on trust Our youth,...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 Wells Brown, William Farmer - Antislavery movements - 1852 - 354 pages
...himself a short time before his death : — " Even such is Time that takes on trust, Our youth, our joy, our 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." Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets,... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...which takes on trust, Our youth and joys, and all we have, And pays us but with age and dust, Which m the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; And from which earth, and grave and duet, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust. WILD FLOWERS. Woouv... | |
 | Lydia Howard Sigourney - Biography - 1852 - 610 pages
...lines were found traop.d — his last on earth : " Even such is time, that takes on trust Our life, our joys, our all we have. And pays us but with age and dust ; Then in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the story of our days.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1852 - 1170 pages
...such is time that takes on trust Our youth, our jtii/es, our all we have, And pays us but with tige 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,... | |
 | 1853 - 446 pages
...veriest pity then ! LINES WRITTEN BY SIR WALTER RALEIGH IN HIS BIBLE BEFORE ASCENDING THE SCAFFOLD. EVEN such is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dust; Who, in the dark and silent grave, When we have wnnder'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days : But from this earth, this grave, this dust,... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...passed out of the world. After his death were found these verses, written the night before : — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth,...dust; Who in the dark and silent grave. When we have wandered all our waya, Shuts up the atory of our days." There are no details to supply a delineation... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. Shakspere. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth,...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,... | |
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