Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.
By Sir Walter Ralegh (1552?–1618)Written in His Bible the Night before His Execution
| EVEN such is Time, that takes in trust | |
| Our youth, our joys, our all we have, | |
| And pays us but with earth and dust; | |
| Who, in the dark and silent grave, | |
| When we have wandered all our ways, | 5 |
| Shuts up the story of our days; | |
| But from this earth, this grave, this dust, | |
| My God shall raise me up, I trust! | |