 Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ? Earth's highest station ends in, " Here he lies," And " Dust to dust  Putnam's Monthly - Page 1261857Full view - About this book
 | Old Humphrey - 1855 - 304 pages
...could not preserve from ruin the royal dust it contained, or commemorated. " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies !' And 'Dust to dust' concludes her noblest song." The crypt, with its cork models of ancient tombs and sepulchral chambers, the ground-floor of the museum... | |
 | Edward Young - 1856 - 536 pages
...to talk with our past hours And ask them what report they bore to heav'n." " Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies ;' And 'Dust to dust,' concludes her noblest song." " The grand morality is love of Thee.' '•A Christian is the highest style of man." . "Believe, and show... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour ? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame ? Earth's highest station ends in "Here he lies :" And "Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Utfe.— -Milton. NOR love thy Life, nor hate ; but whilst thou livest Live well ; how long, how short,... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1856 - 906 pages
...related in our last, speaks loudly — "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." " Karth's highest honours end in — ' Here he lies ;' And ' dust to dust' concludes her noblest song." After Edward was gathered to his fathers, Richard, son of Edward the Black Prince, was next heir to... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour'! What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in " here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. THE CHANGES AND VARIED APPEARANCES OF CREATION. Look nature through, 't is revolution all; All change,... | |
 | Joseph Snow - 1857 - 252 pages
...in worldly wisdom wise, Though wealth and honour, both, to thee belong, •Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song: To Heaven's eternal state then lift thine eyes, And share the strains of its angelic throng. LXXXVI.... | |
 | Silvester Tissington - 1857 - 560 pages
...Framlingham churchyard. July 2nd, 1824, aged 75 :— MARY SUGGATE, died 490 "Earth's highest station ends in ' here he lies,' And 'dust to dust' concludes her noblest song." Highgate Cemetery. — In this cemetery is a lofty white marble tomb, with its crouching lion keeping... | |
 | 1883 - 692 pages
...for triumphs of an hour ? What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame ; Earth's highest station ends in ' Here he lies!' And ' Dust to dust' concludes her noblest song." " CJIM.IIHKN like tender osiers take the bow; And as their youth is fashioned so they grow." HOW COTTfA-PERCHA... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1858 - 780 pages
...this toil for triumphs of an hour! What though we wade in wealth, or soar in Earth's highest station ends in " Here he lies," And " dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. If this song lives, posterity shall know One, though in Britain born, with courtiers bred, Who thought... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...toil for triumphs of an hour 7 What though we wade in wealth, or soar in fame, Earth's highest station ends in ' here he lies," And 'dust to dust' concludes her noblest song. Soon after Young had entered the ministry, he made a noble alliance by marrying the daughter of the... | |
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