Even Such is Time
by Sir Walter Raleigh

English poet. His most famous poems include an 'Epitaph of Sir Philip Sidney', 'Even Such is Time' and the sonnets 'Methought I Saw the Grave Where Laura Lay' which prefaced Spenser's Faerie Queene, and 'Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son'. The standard edition of his Poems was produced by A. Latham in 1951. His prose 'Report of the Truth of the Fight about the Isles of Açores' (1591) inspired Tennyson's poem 'The Revenge'. Other notable prose works are The Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614).

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Even Such is Time
by Sir Walter Raleigh

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,
Shuts up the story of our days.
But from this earth, this grave, this dust,
My God shall raise me up, I trust.

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Even Such is Time by Sir Walter Raleigh