 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
 | 1882 - 328 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1882 - 330 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... | |
 | Edwin O. Chapman - 1884 - 430 страници
...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...verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss. A dread eternity ! how surely mine I And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1885 - 60 страници
...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...verge Look down — on what ? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity ! " Young must have often hugged himself, even as he at random struck the instrument,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 страници
...the flood. It is the signal that demands 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 eternity, — how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1886 - 536 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... | |
 | 1887 - 408 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 Carroll Albertson - 1890 - 328 страници
...lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy. — Isaiah km : 15. " The bell strikes one. 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... | |
 | Grace Townsend - 1891 - 570 страници
...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...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 an... | |
 | Charles F. Beezley - 1891 - 436 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 of... | |
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