Death Without Weeping - VIII, originally uploaded by carf.

Even such is time, that takes in trust
Our youth, our joys, and all we have,
And pays us nought but age and dust ;
Which 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 !

SIR WALTER RALEIGH, printed
with his Prerogative of Parlia-
ments, 1628 ; written 1618.