 | James Hutchison Stirling - English poetry - 1885 - 60 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...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... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 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...despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Rise up alarmed, and, o'er life's narrow verge, Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss, A dread... | |
 | Truths - 1885 - 572 pages
...note of Time, -L 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 ! iTiinr. — Shakespeare. TIME is the old Justice, that examines... | |
 | Homiletical illustrations - 1887 - 408 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...and o'er life's narrow verge, Look down— on what? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity ! " Conviction seized the youth ; alarmed and terrified, he left... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1888 - 252 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 knell...; Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. Young, Art is long and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled... | |
 | Charles Northend - Maxims - 1890 - 224 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...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!... | |
 | Mrs. Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1890 - 640 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;... | |
 | Grace Townsend - English poetry - 1891 - 570 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;... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - Literature - 1891 - 436 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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - Literature - 1893 - 464 pages
...We take no note of time Bat from its low : to give it then a tongue IB wise in man. As if an ángel spoke, 1 feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It...are they ? With the years beyond the flood. It is toe signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done t My hopes and feara Start tip alarm'd, and... | |
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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... 
