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Andrew Macphail, comp. The Book of Sorrow. 1916.

To-day a Man, To-morrow None

Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–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 wander’d 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.