| William Cowper - 1860 - 506 Seiten
...I passed — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft can cure Can... | |
| John Robinson (M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford.) - 1860 - 354 Seiten
...I passed, and they were gone. 3. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page — A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 4. Then let us fly, to Jesus fly, Whose powerful arm can save ; So shall our hopes ascend on high,... | |
| Roger Carus WILSON - 1860 - 276 Seiten
...life secure, And save us from the tomb. 4 Lord, may we mark the awful truth, Reveal'd in sacred page ;-*A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 294™ Scrolt. Uncertainty of life a reason for watching. SM 1 rPO-MORROW, Lord, is Thine, Lodged in... | |
| Jonathan Eastwood - 1862 - 592 Seiten
...and of Sarah his wife. He died May 15, 1828, aged 15 years. He was amiable and of much promise, but " A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age." Also to the memory of Sarah, relict of the a1x>ve, who died Aug' 11, 1344, aged 75 yean. Sacred to... | |
| Robert Southey - 1862 - 760 Seiten
...A LONELY FATHER AND AN ONLY CHILD. Read ye that run the aweful truth, With which 1 charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. CoWPEtt. CHAPTER LXXX. — p. 178. OBSERVATIONS WHICH SHOW THAT WHATEVER PRIDE MEN MAY TAKE IN THE... | |
| William Cowper - 1864 - 456 Seiten
...I pass'd — and they were gone. Bead, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page : A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For .yet an hour to come : No medicine, though it oft can cure, Can... | |
| Edward Massey (Novelist.) - 1864 - 316 Seiten
...overcast. Do we not find it so in reality ? Is anything here constant ? Truly has Cowper told us ' a worm is in the bud of youth, and at the root of age.' Yes, those moonbeams, the faintly reflected rays of a sun long set, seem to forcibly point upwards,... | |
| Morning dew - 1864 - 340 Seiten
...; I passed, and they were gone. Eead, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page — A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. Then let us fly, to Jesus fly, Whose powerful arm can save ; So shall our hopes ascend on high, And... | |
| Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 Seiten
...Kilmanstgg. MOBTALITY — continued. Read, yc that run, the awful truth , With which I charge ray page ! A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. Cowper, on the Billt of Mortality, All that's bright must fade—- The brightest still the fleetest... | |
| John Bartlett - 1868 - 828 Seiten
...251. And the tear that is wiped with a little address May be follow'd, perhaps, by a smile. The Rose. A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality. 1 Je crains Dieu, cher Abner, et n'ai point d'autre crainte.... | |
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