Sir Walter Raleigh's Verses found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; 1618. XXII. Sir Walter Raleigh. 1892. Poems

Sir Walter Raleigh (1554?–1618). Poems. 1892.

XXII.

Sir Walter Raleigh’s Verses found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster; 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 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! W. R.