An Epitaph

by Stephen Hawes

O MORTAL folk, you may behold and see How I lie here, sometime a mighty knight; The end of joy and all prosperitee   Is death at last, thorough his course and might:   After the day there cometh the dark night,     For though the daye be never so long,     At last the bells ringeth to evensong.

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