 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 382 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 !... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893
...flood. It is toe signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done t My hopes and feara Start tip alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down —...fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine! j And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour? How poor, how rich, how... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - 1896 - 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 Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1898
...the precariousness of their tenure until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least-rOur hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's...verge Look down — on what? a fathomless abyss, A dark eternity, how surely ours I The crow'd of assembled gazers and idlers at Ellangowan had followed... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1897
...making across the dusky fields to the neighboring forest. CHAPTER V. Hopes and Fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down : on what ? — a fathomless abyss ! YOUNG, MIDNIGHT, and intense frost! There they were, houseless and breadless, the two fugitives,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898
...is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what...mine ! And can Eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner upon the bounties of an hour! How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 9822 páginas
...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902
...departed hours. Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : . alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down— on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity !... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1902
...departed hours. Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands dispatch : ther world to rise from it. But that is not our pre alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? Л fathomless abyss. A dread eternity... | |
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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? 
