The Night before his Death

Sir Walter Raleigh

c.1553 to 1618

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Every 10th word

Even such is time, that takes on trust
 ______ youth, our joys, our all we have,
And pays ______ but with age and dust;
 Who in the ______ and silent grave,
When we have wandered all our ways,
Shuts up the story of our days!
But from ______ earth, this grave, this dust,
The Lord shall raise ______ up, I trust!

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