Note 100 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
Some lines in sweet Saxon English, written by Raleigh on the fly-leaf of his Bible, shortly before his death, are worth remembering:—
"Even such is Time, that takes on 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 record of our days. Yet from this earth, this grave, this dust, The Lord shall raise me up, I trust."