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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 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... "
Our World's Great Benefactors: Short Biographies of the Men and Women Most ... - Page 415
by Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 702 lehte
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Selections from the British Poets: Chronologically Arranged from Chaucer to ...

1851 - 496 lehte
...RALEIGH. Bonx, 1552; DIED, 1618. LINES COMPOSED THE XIGHT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, IX PBOSPECT OF DEATH. E'EN such is time, that takes on trust, Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And paj-s us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways,...
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Knight's Cyclopædia of London, 1851

Charles Knight - 1851 - 882 lehte
...the last night he spent in this room, or in the world, he wrote on a blank leaf of his Bible :— " Even such is Time, that takes on trust , Our youth, our joys, our all we hare, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all...
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Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated

Isaac Disraeli - 1851 - 518 lehte
...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...
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Picturesque Sketches of London: Past and Present

Thomas Miller - 1852 - 316 lehte
...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,...dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Russel, Sydney, Shaftesbury, Buckingham, Laud,...
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Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met

William Wells Brown, William Farmer - 1852 - 354 lehte
...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...wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days." Spears, battle-axes, pikes, helmets, targets, bows and arrows, and many instruments of torture, whose...
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Examples of Life and Death

Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1852 - 610 lehte
...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....
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Lives of the illustrious. The Biographical magazine [ed. by J.P. Edwards].

Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 lehte
...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,...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 of Raleigh's daily...
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The Cottager's monthly visitor, 33. köide

1853 - 446 lehte
...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,...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, 2. köide

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 lehte
...attendants 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,...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,...
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A History of England in the Lives of Englishmen, 2. köide

George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 526 lehte
...the night before his execution. They are thus quoted in the Oxford edition of his works : Even Buch is time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silenv grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days 1 But from this earth,...
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