The Night before his Death

Sir Walter Raleigh

c.1553 to 1618

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Even such is time, that takes on trust
  youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays but with age and dust;
 Who in the and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days!
But from earth, this grave, this dust,
The Lord shall raise up, I trust!