I hope when I die, and the Ages doe roll,Doesn't that almost sound as if Raleigh could have written it?
My Bodie will blacken and turne into Coale :
Then Ile looke from the Doore of my heauenly Home,
And pitie the Miner a digging my Bones.
In the waking world, of course, these lines are not Raleigh's but come from the 1946 folk song "Dark as a Dungeon" by Merle Travis, later sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford, Johnny Cash, and many others. I'm partial to Jerry Garcia and David Grisman's version myself.
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I agree, it's plausible as Ralegh at his most uninspired. Ralegh only wrote a few/ couple of good poems, but these are as good as anything!
Agreed. Even his best poem, "The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage," is only good in places.
This one is my favourite:
https://charltonteaching.blogspot.com/2010/10/two-dust-poems-by-sir-walter-raleigh.html
Yes, that one is short enough to be entirely perfect.
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