Study of an Old Man with a Gold Chain, by Rembrandt
Sir Walter Raleigh
Even such is time, 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.

Also known as “The Author's Epitaph, Made By Himself” or “Lines Written On The Eve Of His Execution”

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