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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... "
A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent ... - Page 204
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 482 pages
...which being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Oar youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but...dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days! " He has added two other lines expressive of...
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The works of Isaac Disraeli (ed. by B. Disraeli).

Isaac Disraeli - 1859 - 566 pages
...compose those verses on his death, which being short, the most appropriate may be repeated. 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 ! He has added two other lines expressive of...
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The graduated series of reading-lesson books, Book 4

Graduated series - 1859 - 462 pages
...compose those verses on his death, of which the most appropriate may be repeated : — " Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust j Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days...
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Specimens with Memoirs of the Less-known British Poets, Volume 1

George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 396 pages
...He was in his sixtyfifth year. He had the night before composed the following verse : — Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...wander'd all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days.' Thus perished Sir Walter Raleigh. There has been ever one opinion as to the breadth and brilliance...
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First period. Second period. From Spenser to Dryden

George Gilfillan - English poetry - 1860 - 392 pages
...He was in his sixtyfifth year. He had the night before composed the following verse : — Even such is Time, that takes on trust Our youth, our joys,...in the dark and silent grave, When we have wander'd allour ways, Shuts up the story of our daya.' Thus perished Sir Walter Raleigh. There has been ever...
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Post-structuralist Readings of English Poetry

Richard Machin, Christopher Norris - Literary Criticism - 1987 - 422 pages
...supplying the closure for all our stories: Oh, cruel 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. "Shuts up the story of our days" - an echo of...
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English Renaissance Poetry: a Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton To ...

Poetry - 460 pages
...wit, And dries all wantonness with it. O cruel 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. THE LIE Go, Soul, the body's guest, Upon a thankless...
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The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry

Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 936 pages
...MADE THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS BEHEADING 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 dust. The...
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America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

William J. Federer, William Joseph Federer - Literary Collections - 1994 - 868 pages
...his death, Sir Walter Raleigh left this version of his earlier poem: Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays...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 dust, The...
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Using English from Conversation to Canon

Janet Maybin, Neil Mercer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 352 pages
...elbows are only glued together. 4 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 dust, The...
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