Stephen Hawes

Here you will find the Poem An Epitaph of poet Stephen Hawes

An Epitaph

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.