Sir Walter Ralegh (1552?-1618). Written in His Bible the Night before His Execution. Henry Charles Beeching, ed. 1903. Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse

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Henry Charles Beeching, ed. (1859–1919). Lyra Sacra: A Book of Religious Verse. 1903.

Written in His Bible the Night before His Execution

By Sir Walter Ralegh (1552?–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!