Even such is time (Geoff Allan)
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- Editor: Geoff Allan (submitted 2016-06-26). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 109 kB Copyright: Personal
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Title: Even such is time
Composer: Geoff Allan
Lyricist: Sir Walter Raleghcreate page
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Motet
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
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Description: Sir Walter Ralegh's epitaph, supposedly written the night before his execution.
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Original text and translations
English text
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.