 | Albert Newton Raub - Readers - 1878 - 444 pages
...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...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... | |
 | 72 pages
...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...Where are they ? 'With the years beyond the Flood. Youth is not rich in Time : it may be poor ; Part with it as with money, sparing ; pay No moment, but... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...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...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... | |
 | James Martin (of the Wedgwood inst, Burslem) - 1880 - 232 pages
...no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise iu man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...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,... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...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...signal that demands despatch ; How much is to be done 1 my hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? A fathomless... | |
 | John McGovern - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1880 - 762 pages
...it : The bell strikes one. 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, 1 feel the solemn...heard aright. It is the knell of my departed hours. Young has written lines on procrastination in the First Night which have superseded other oracles of... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American poetry - 1881 - 1000 pages
...no note of time But from its loss : to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I wings of Time, Old age comes on apace, to ravage all the clime. And be ! Sly hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — 011 what ? A fathomless... | |
 | Francis Thayer Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Elocution - 1882 - 328 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1882 - 330 pages
...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...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... | |
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The bell strikes one. 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? With the years beyond the flood... 
