English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14. |
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| 49. Verses |
| | | Found in His Bible in the Gate-House at Westminster. Said to Have Been Written the Night before His Death |
| | | Sir Walter Raleigh (1552(?)–1618) |
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| 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. | |
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