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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Even Such Is Time

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.