 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...  Violet; or, The danseuse [by M.D. Malet]. - Stran 81avtor: lady Marianne Dora Malet - 1836Celotni ogled - O knjigi
 | Book - 1872 - 326 strani
...night before his death he wrote these lines, afterwards found on a fly-leaf of his bible : — Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and 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... | |
 | Matthew Denton - 1873 - 218 strani
...favour. The following lines were written by him in his Bible on the evening before his execution : — " E'en such is time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and 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... | |
 | 1862 - 432 strani
...execution. They are supposed to have been intended by him for his epitaph : '• Even such is Time, who takes in trust Our youth, our joys and all we have, And pays us bnt with earth and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts... | |
 | Alfred Hayman Cummings - 1875 - 314 strani
...dcponi, pro orationibus fundendis ibidem et alleviatione portantium. THE RESTORATION OF THE CHURCH. E'en such is time : which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, and all we have ! And pays us nought but age and dust, Which m the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways Shuts up the... | |
 | Dublin city, roy. coll. of sci - 1875 - 358 strani
...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... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 230 strani
...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... | |
 | John Richard Green - 1879 - 708 strani
...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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1880 - 460 strani
...universal epitaph. Then the secrets of all hearts shall be finally revealed—at the last day. " Even such is Time, which takes in trust Our Youth, our joys, and all we have, And pays us nought but Age and Dust, When in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the... | |
 | Episodes - 1880 - 272 strani
...youth he had been accustomed to think in numbers — the following 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... | |
 | Old favourites, Matilda Sharpe - 1881 - 438 strani
...1552-1618. Written the Night before his Execution, And found in his Bible in the Gatehouse at Westminster. E'en such is Time, which takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have . . . Which in the dark and silent grave — When we have wandered all our ways —... | |
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