 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. It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed,...  The Waverley Novels - Страница 201по Walter Scott - 1860Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | 1866 - 426 страници
...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 Look down. — On what ? a fathomless abyss ; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | James Lee (M.A.) - 1867 - 492 страници
...is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, 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 the dissipated throng,... | |
 | Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 страници
...the years beyond the flood ! It is the signal that demands despatch : 2. How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's...verge Look down — on what ? a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity ! How surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1870 - 468 страници
...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...had followed the views of amusement, or what they call business, which brought them there, with little regard to the feelings of those who were suffering... | |
 | John W. Harsha - 1870 - 516 страници
...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 Look down — on what? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity ! " Then improve time for eternity. Improve the present moment. We entreat you by the... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 страници
...is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! 3My hopes and fears Rise up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? a fathomless abyss, 4A. dread eternity, — how surely mine ! 5 And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 страници
...the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ! My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, nnd 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 on the bounties of... | |
 | Charles Kendall, rev. Henry Kendall - 1871 - 336 страници
...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...Look down — on what ? — A fathomless abyss — A dread eternity ! How surely mine ! ' Conviction seized the gay youth. Alarmed and terrified, he left... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 страници
...the years Iwyoml the flood ? It is the signal that demands despatch ; How much is to IK- done ! my dom's now, and fame's, — One of the few, the immortal...names That were not born to die. F1TZ-GREENB 1I.M IVC dread etemity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | Marcius Willson - 1872 - 382 страници
...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...verge Look down — on what' ? A fathomless abyss' ! A dread eternity' ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me', Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
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