The Night before his Death

Sir Walter Raleigh

c.1553 to 1618

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