- 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.
This poem by Sir Walter Raleigh, "The Conclusion," is thought to be a revision of an earlier verse by him. The changes, believed to have been made shortly before his execution on October 29, 1618, are reflected in a version discovered tucked inside his Bible.