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| Stanza | Denson | Cooper | ||||
| 1 |
Time! what an empty Vapour 'tis! And Days, how swift they are! Swift as an Indian Arrow flies, Or like a shooting Star. |
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| 2 |
[The present Moments just appear, Then slide away in haste, That we can never say, They're here: But only say, They're past.] |
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| 3 |
[Our Life is ever on the Wing, And Death is ever nigh; The Moment when our Lives begin, We all begin to die.] |
Guiding Spirit 86, Stanza 1 |
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| 4 |
Yet, mighty GOD! our fleeting Days Thy lasting Favours share, Yet with the Bounties of the Grace Thou load'st the rolling Year. |
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| 5 |
White Lilies all around appear, And each his Glory shows; The Rose of Sharon blossoms here, The fairest Flow'r that blows. |
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| 6 |
Chearful I feast on heav'nly Fruit, And drink the Pleasures down, Pleasures that flow hard by the Foot Of the eternal Throne.] |
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| 7 |
But ah! how soon my Joys decay! How soon my Sins arise! And snatch the heav'nly Scene away From these lamenting Eyes. |
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| 8 |
When shall the Time, dear JESUS, when The shining Day appear, That I shall leave these Clouds of Sin, And Guilt and Darkness here? |
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| 9 |
Up to the Fields above the Skies, My hasty Feet would go; There everlasting Flow'rs arise, And Joys unwith'ring grow. |
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