Quotes from bushby anne s

Alas! how few look back upon their youth, Who glean not from the past the unwelcome truth That Time, of stealthy step and pinion grey, Brings no new joy like that he takes away!

And where, on earth, dwell hope and truth? In childhood's uncorrupted heart; Alas! too soon to guileless youth The world doth its dark code impart!

Still Time, great wizard of this earth, Who holds o'er human minds such sway! Oft bids to scenes of later birth Old recollections to give way.

Oh! that "eternal shore," When Death shall be no more! How widely differing from this mortal state, Where we but draw our earliest breath To yield it up again in death, Obedient to the unchanging laws of fate!