 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. It is the signal that demands despatch : How much is to be...  Guy Mannering or the astrologer - Page 90by Walter Scott - 1896Full view - About this book
 | English monthly tract society - 1838 - 634 pages
...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? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity — how surely mine 1 " ONCE more are we reminded, by the striking of the midnight bell,... | |
 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...caves as those that have been thrown up on the surging sea. " My hopes and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down, — on what? a fathomless abyss, A dread eternity." That is indeed Poetry. Recoils the soul from the brink of the abyss ? Stands it shuddering... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...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 ? a fathomless abyss ! A dread eternity ! How surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties of... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1838 - 400 pages
...across the dusky fields to the neighbouring forest. CHAPTER V. " Hopes and Fears Start up alarmed , and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what ? — a fathomless abyss:" YOUNG. MIDNIGHT— and intense Frost!— there they were— houseless and breadless— the two fugitives... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1404 pages
...With tha years beyond the flood. It is tho signal that demands despatch : How much is to be done ? My hopes and fears Start up alarm'd, 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... | |
 | Christian life - 1839 - 296 pages
...It is the signal that demands despatch. How much is to be done ? My hope and fears Start up alarmed, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — on what? A fathomless abyss, A dread eternity." The effect of the recollection of this passage was solemn and powerful. He could no... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 alarm'd, 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... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...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? A fathomless abyss! (1) A dread eternity ! liow surely mine ' And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner on the bounties... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...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 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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...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 alarm'd, and o'er life's narrow verge Look down — On what 1 a fathomless abyss; A dread eternity ! how surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me, Poor pensioner... | |
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