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Walter Raleigh Quotes about Time

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Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.

Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust.

Walter Raleigh
Time, Dust, Joy
Sir Walter Raleigh (1848). “The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana: With a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manoa... Etc. Performed in the Year 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh, Knt... Reprinted from the Edition of 1596, with Some Unpublished Documents Relative to that Country. Ed., with Copious Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. Schomburgk”, p.223

Even such isTime, 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.

Walter Raleigh
Time, Dark, Dust
Written the night before his death, and found in his Bible in the Gate-house at Westminster. V. B. Heltzel 'Ralegh's "Even such is time"' in 'Huntingdon Library Bulletin' no. 10 (October 1936) p. 185

... but the longest day hath its evening.

Walter Raleigh
Time, Evening

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