The Conclusion

Sir Walter Raleigh.
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 wander’d 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.