 | Albert Newton Raub - 1878 - 416 páginas
...departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood, It is the signal that demands dispatch. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity,... | |
 | Henry Woodcock - 1879
...and often compels the sinner to cry for deliverance ; as was the case with the poet when he said — My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd. and o'er life's...fathomless abyss — A dread eternity ! — how surely mine ! ' A sense of misery,' said the late Dr. Dixon, ' of an undefined nature, is often the precursor of... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyatt - 1879
...hours : Where are they 1 With the years beyond the flood. 60 It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start...and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what 1 a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879
...departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880
...departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch: How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down—on what? A fathomless abyss; A dread eternity! how surely mine! And can eternity belong to me,... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1881
...th;it demands dispatch : How much is 10 be done? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, And o'er life s narrow verge Look down— on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely m<uu ! And can eternity belong -to me. Poor pensioner on the bounties of on hour? O time ! than pold... | |
 | William Russell - 1882 - 302 páginas
...departed hours: Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1882 - 958 páginas
...hours. Where are they Ï With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : h with you in your jubilee ; My heart is at your fe alarmed, and o'er life's 11 arrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ; Л dread eternity... | |
 | Holy thoughts - 1882
...esteemed by it. In fact, we find much of our bppiness in esteem. — PASCAL. Eternity. — Alarmed at How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss — A dread eternity... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1882 - 379 páginas
...in onr hearts, known and read of all men. — 2 Cor. 3: 2. 8. My hopes and fears Start up alarin'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss.' — Young. 9. Thrice unhappy he who, being born to see things as they might be, is schooled by circumstances... | |
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We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours: Where are they? 
