Sir Walter Raleigh

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    “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.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618)

    “But true love is a durable fire
    In the mind ever burning;
    Never sick, never old, never dead,
    From itself never turning.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “From alle wymmen mi love is lent
    And lyht on Alysoun.”
    —Unknown. Alison. . .

    Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250–1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939)

    “But could youth last, and love still breed,
    Had joys no date, nor age no need,
    Then these delights my mind might move
    To live with thee and be thy Love.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)

    “Green springs the tree, hemp grows, the wag is wild,
    But when they meet, it makes the timber rot;
    It frets the halter, and it chokes the child.”
    —Sir Walter Raleigh (1552?–1618)