 When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid, Why, as we reach the Falls of death, Feel we its tide more rapid? It may be strange — yet who would change, Time's course to slower speeding; When one by one our friends have gone,...  Heart Songs: A Book for the Gift-season - Page 38edited by - 1856 - 144 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Cumming - 1854 - 300 pages
...have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid, [which last is not a Scriptural remark] Why, as we reach the falls of death, Feel we its tide more rapid 1 " Heaven gives our years a fading strength, Indemnifying fleetness, And gives to youth a seeming... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 426 pages
...shafts fly thicker, Ye stars, that measure life to man ! Why seem your courses quicker? When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid ; Why, as we reach the falls of Death, Feel we the tide more rapid ? It may be strange — yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding ?... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 384 pages
...shafts fly thicker, Ye stars, that measure life to man ! Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid ; Why, as we reach the falls of Death, Feel we the tide more rapid ? It may be strange — yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding ?... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 410 pages
...shafts fly thicker, Ye stars, that measure life to man ! Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid ; Why, as we reach the falls of Death, Feel we the tide more rapid ? It may be strange — yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding ?... | |
 | Frederick Saunders - 1856 - 422 pages
...strange — yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding ? When one by one our friends are gone, And left our bosoms bleeding. Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying flectuess ; And those of youth, a seeming length, Proportioned to their sweetuess.* We now come to... | |
 | Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - 1858 - 642 pages
...shafts fly thicker, Ye stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid,...rapid ? It may be strange — yet who would change Times course to slower speeding ; "When one by one our friends have gone, And left our bosoms bleeding... | |
 | 1859 - 300 pages
...shafts fly thicker, Ye stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid,...our friends have gone, And left our bosoms bleeding ? (SB3) Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness, And those of youth a seeming... | |
 | 1859 - 300 pages
...fly thicker, Ye stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker ? . • When joys have lost their bloom and breath, And life itself is vapid, Why, as we reach the falls of death, Peel we its tide more rapid ? It may be strange — yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - 1861 - 356 pages
...shafts fly thicker, Ye Stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath And life itself is vapid,...of Death, Feel we its tide more rapid ? It may be strange—yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding, When one by one our friends have gone... | |
 | 1890 - 366 pages
...Feel we its tide more rapid? It may be strange-yet who would change Time's course to slower speedmg, When one by one our friends have gone And left our bosoms bleedmg ? Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness ; And those of youth, a... | |
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