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,... Guy Mannering, Or, The Astrologer - Страница 225по Walter Scott - 1815 - 358 странициПълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| James Hamilton - 1859 - 436 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 ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 страници
...is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done 1 My hopes and fears .Start up alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what? a fathomless abyss j A dread eternity 1 how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
| L. Contanseau - 1860 - 232 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 ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 766 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 ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| Benjamin Smith (Wesleyan Minister.) - 1861 - 208 страници
...ia 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 ! how surely mine ! " " Man sleeps, and man alone ; and man, whose fate, Fate irreversible,... | |
| Lays - 1862 - 406 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... | |
| Marcius Willson - 1862 - 558 страници
...With the years beyond the flood. It i> 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' 1 how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor peusiou6r on the bounties of... | |
| English poets - 1862 - 626 страници
...ith 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... | |
| John Laurie Blake - 1862 - 236 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 ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
| Henry Twells - 1864 - 318 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... | |
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