The glass is full, and now my glass is run;

And now I live, and now my life is done!

Chidiock Tychborn.

LIX
LINES WRITTEN THE NIGHT BEFORE HIS EXECUTION.

E’en such is time; which takes on trust

Our youth, our joys, our all we have,

And pays us but with earth and dust;

Which in the dark and silent grave,

When we have wandered all our ways, 5

Shuts up the story of our days: