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THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF by WALTER RALEIGH

Poem Explanation

First Line: EVEN SUCH IS TIME, THAT TAKES IN TRUST
Last Line: MY GOD SHALL RAISE ME UP, I TRUST.
Subject(s): AMBITION; DEATH; EASTER; FAITH; GREAT BRITAIN - HISTORY; HEAVEN; HOLIDAYS; NEW YEAR; RELIGION; TIME; TRANSIENCE; DEAD, THE; THE RESURRECTION; BELIEF; CREED; ENGLISH HISTORY; PARADISE; THEOLOGY; IMPERMANENCE;
Even such is Time, which takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and 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:
And from which earth, and grave, and dust,
The Lord shall raise me up, I trust.




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