 Our life is but a winter day. Some only breakfast and away. Others to dinner stay, and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day ; Who goes tbe soonest has the least to pay.  Buchan - Page 211by John Burnett Pratt - 1901 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1867 - 582 pages
...allowed. \ND ADMOXITORY. a th, '.•nth, pen, HC I.LANGOWEH CHURCHYARD, WALES. Our life is but a summer's day : Some only breakfast, and away; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed: The oldest man but taps, and goes to bed. Largo his account, who lingers out the day; Who goes the soonest, has the least... | |
 | Joseph Polsue - Cornwall (England : County) - 1867 - 448 pages
...Rev. xiv. 13. In the churchyard arc the following curious epitaphs :— Our life is but a Winter's day ; Some only Breakfast and away ; Others to Dinner stay and are Full fed ; The oldest only Sups and goes to Bed. Large is his Debt, who lingera out the Day : Who goes the soonest has the... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 pages
...in having sent it. I copied it from a tombstone in Greyfriars' Churchyard, Stirling— "Our life'is but a winter day, Some only breakfast and away ; Others...oldest man but sups and goes to bed. Large is his debt that lingers out the day— He that goes soonest has the least to pay. " WILD CHILDREN. (f. 56, c.)... | |
 | United States - 1866 - 808 pages
...away ; Others to dinner stay, aud aro full fed ; The oldust man but suns aud goes to bed. Large is the debt who lingers out the day, Who goes tbe soonest has the least to pay. LINES FOB AN INFANT'S TOMB-STONE. The storm that breaks the winter sky, No more disturbs his deep repose... | |
 | Tom Burgess - 1871 - 362 pages
...epitaph which faces the visitor from the Lady's Seat:— " Our life is but a winter's day, Some early breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are...full fed, The oldest man but sups and goes to bed ; Long is his debt that lingers out the day ; He that goes soonest has the least to pay :" and remarked... | |
 | Children's literature - 1871 - 768 pages
...epitaph which faces the visitor from the Lady's Seat:— " Oar life is but a winter's day, Some oarly breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed, The oldest man but mips and goes to bed; Long is his debt that lingers out the day ; He that goes soonest has the least... | |
 | Frederick Teague Cansick - Epitaphs - 1872 - 344 pages
...his disconsolate widow. Omnipotent, immortal, & immense is the Great Creator. Life's like a winter's day. Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay and are full fed ; The oldest one but sups and goes to bed. Wretched is he that lingers out the day, He that goes soonest has the... | |
 | Frederick Teague Cansick - Epitaphs - 1872 - 346 pages
...This monument was erected Omnipotent, immortal, & immense is the Great Creator. Life's like a winter's day. Some only breakfast and away; Others to dinner stay and are full fed ; The oldest one but sups and goes to bed. Wretched is he that lingers out the day, He that goes soonest has the... | |
 | Epitaphiana - 1873 - 214 pages
...an inn, my house will show it— I thought so once, but now I know it. Man's life is but a winter's day : Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner...stay, and are full fed ; The oldest man but sups and then to bed : Large is his debt who lingers out the day ! He who goes soonest has the least to pay.... | |
 | Epitaphs - 1875 - 192 pages
...his body too with theirs arise To share the judgment of the skies. In Stirling Churchyard :— Man's life is but a winter day, Some only breakfast and...to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day, He that goes soonest has the least to pay. 34 EPITAPHS In a Churchyard in Kent:— Here lies the body... | |
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