| sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1848 - 306 страница
...the precariousness of their tenure until it has altogether failed. Then, for a moment at least, Our hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what ? — a fathomless aby&s, A dark eternity, — how surely ours ! Our time is like our money. When we change... | |
| Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 страница
...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 Look down, — on what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - 1848 - 468 страница
...hours. 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 alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity... | |
| David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 страница
...hours. Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood ! It 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 1 a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity... | |
| 1872 - 710 страница
...With the years beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done I who to sober measurement Time's happy swiftness brings, When birds of paradise have lent Th fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1872 - 786 страница
...beyond the flood. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and feare Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what? a fathomless abyss; A dread eternity! how surely mine I And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
| 1872 - 900 страница
...hours : Where are they ? with the years beyond the flood ? It is the signal that demands despatch : alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge book down — on what ? a fathomless abyss ; Л dread eternity... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 страница
...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'... | |
| English poetry - 1873 - 390 страница
...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...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, Poor pensioner... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1874 - 412 страница
...114 : 1-7. 7. Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men. —2 Cor. 8: 2. 8. My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss. — Young. 9. Thrice unhappy he who, being born to see things as they might be, is... | |
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