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Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618). Poems. 1892.

XXII.

Sir Walter Raleigh’s Verses found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; 1618

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,

Shuts up the story of our days;

But from this earth, this grave, this dust,

My God shall raise me up, I trust!