Even such is Time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with [age]1 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]2, [The Lord]3 shall raise me up, I trust.
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Gurney: "earth"
2 Gurney: "But from this earth, this grave, this dust"
3 Gurney: "My God"
Text Authorship:
- by Walter Raleigh, Sir (1552? - 1618), "Epitaph", found in his Bible in the Gate House at Westminster. [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- by Jack Hamilton Beeson (b. 1921), "The conclusion", 1952, rev. 1959, 1995, first performed 1958 [ high voice and piano ], from Six Lyrics, no. 6 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ina Boyle (1889 - 1967), "Even such time", 1912 [ chorus ] [sung text not yet checked]
- by Ivor (Bertie) Gurney (1890 - 1937), "Even such is time", 1917, published 1959 [ voice and piano ], revised 1918 and 1925 [sung text checked 1 time]
- by Ernst Křenek (1900 - 1991), "Even such is time", op. 87 no. 2 (1939) [ chorus a cappella ], from Two choruses on Jacobean poems für Chor a cappella, no. 2, Wien und Leipzig, Universal Edition [sung text not yet checked]
- by Daan Manneke (b. 1939), "The author's epitaph", 1974 [ low voice and harpsichord or organ or piano ], from Five songs on English poems, no. 3 [sung text not yet checked]
- by Phyllis Margaret Duncan Tate (1911 - 1987), "Epitaph" [sung text not yet checked]
Available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):
- GER German (Deutsch) (Richard Flatter) , "Der Abschluß", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936
Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
This text was added to the website between May 1995 and September 2003.
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Word count: 65
Dann kommt die Zeit und nimmt zum Raub All unsere Habe, Jugend, Lust, Bezahlt uns nichts als Erd und Staub Und schließt, wenn wir im dunkeln Dust, Der Wandrung müd, im Grabe ruhn, Das Märchen ab von Sein und Tun. Doch aus der Erd, aus Grab und Staub, Holt mich einst Gott, wie ich fest glaub.
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Confirmed with Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten Übersetzt von Richard Flatter, Walter Krieg Verlag, Wien-Bad Bocklet-Zürich, 1954, 2nd edition (1st edition 1936), page 45.
Text Authorship:
- by Richard Flatter (1891 - 1960), "Der Abschluß", appears in Die Fähre, Englische Lyrik aus fünf Jahrhunderten, first published 1936 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in English by Walter Raleigh, Sir (1552? - 1618), "Epitaph", found in his Bible in the Gate House at Westminster.
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
- [ None yet in the database ]
Researcher for this page: Volkmar Henschel
This text was added to the website: 2021-02-23
Line count: 8
Word count: 56