 | Michael Schwartzentruber - 256 pages
.... . " Knowing this, the opening verse takes on a whole new meaning: I'll praise my Maker while I've breath; and when my voice is lost in death, praise...and thought and being last, or immortality endures. This is an important part of our task today, to open up our traditions with awareness and sensitivity,... | |
 | Literary Collections - 2007 - 240 pages
...Let every tongue, let every age, In this exalted work engage; Praise him in everlasting strains. I'll praise him while he lends me breath, And when my voice...and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures. ISAAC WATTS (1674—1748) was born in Southampton, England, into a family who were Dissenters from... | |
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I'LL praise my Maker with my breath ; And when my voice is lost in death, Praise shall employ my nobler powers : My days of praise shall ne'er be past, While life, and thought, and being last, Or immortality endures. 
