Even such is time that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays us but with age and dust;
Who in the dark and silent grave,
When we have wandered 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!
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Original Citation
Raleigh, Walter. Even Such is Time. London, c. 1618, I. 1.
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Current Citation
Raleigh, Walter. "Even Such is Time." Great Short Poems. Dover Publications, 2000, I. 1.
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