 | 1853 - 446 pages
...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, our joys,...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,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...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, our joys,...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,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 pages
...the night before his execution. They are thus quoted in the Oxford edition of his works : Even such Is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silen\ grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth,... | |
 | Charles Whitehead - 1854 - 346 pages
...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...our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from that earth, that grave and dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust." Sir Walter Ralegh was sixty-six... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 pages
...statesman, poet — the universal Raleigh, who was then in the sixty-seventh year of his age:— " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days."* King James made a merit of this execution with the court of Spain : the people set it down to his eternal... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 pages
...night before his death. They will show you that he was a poet as well as a fine prose writer. Ev'n such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...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 - 1855 - 338 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." f Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets,... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 190 pages
...incurable by art; and both the states are the next heirs of death. Jeremy Taylor. CREDITOR TIME. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...this dust, My God shall raise me up I trust ? Sir W. Raldqh. NOTICE OF DEATH. * * This same Which we call death, the soul's release from wo, The work which... | |
 | Harvey Buckland - 1856 - 208 pages
...incurable by art; and both the states are the next heirs of death. Jeremy Taylor. CREDITOR TIME. Even such is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...this dust, My God shall raise me up I trust ? Sir IK Raleigh. KCTICE Or DEATH. * * This same Which we call death, the soul's release from wo, The work... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 588 pages
...were found these verses, written the night before : " Even bin-it is Time, that takee on trust Oar youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." There are no details to supply a delineation of Raleigh's daily and familiar life. Of his personal... | |
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EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, 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 ; But from this earth, this grave, this... 
