 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1846 - 296 pages
...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...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!... | |
 | Protestantism - 1846 - 644 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 0 0 ٵ ٵ * fear Start up alarm 'd; and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss —... | |
 | Asa Humphrey - Literature - 1847 - 238 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... | |
 | British and foreign sailors' society - 1847 - 614 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 I " Learned and good men have at various periods devoted their attention... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...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...How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what 1 a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1848 - 120 pages
...To give2 it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, > Rule XI. «Rule IV. Rem.3. • 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 5 Start up alarm'd and o'er life's narrow verge... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...not till then, — and no one can proclaim the hour — I too shall go to the place of all living. I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the...Where are they ? With the years beyond the flood. 1. It is the signal that demands dispatch ; — How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up... | |
 | 1849 - 192 pages
...hours ; Where are they 1 with the years beyond the flood : It is the signal that demands dispatch: How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start...— On what 1 a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! Conviction seized the youth. Alarmed and terrified, he left the dissipated throng, and retired to... | |
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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... 
