 | John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pages
...order stood, Or earth recei>'d her frame; From everlasting thou art God} To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening...watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 5 The busy tribes of flesh and blood, ,/j/ With all their cares and fears, Are carried downward by the... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...to dust. " Return, ye sons of men :" All nations rose from earth at first. Aud turn to earth again. A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening...watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. The busy tribes of flesh and blood, "With all their lives and cares, Are carried downwards by the flood,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Bible - 1818 - 612 pages
...dust, " Iteturn ye sons of men •." AH nat,ons rose from eartn at first, « And turn to earth again. 5 A thousand ages, in thy sight, Are like an evening...watch that ends the night, -; Before the rising sun. 6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their lives and cares, } Are carry'd downwards hy the... | |
 | Richard Marks - Christian life - 1818 - 232 pages
...its value, and then it is in vain to wish its return, or to entreat its stay. So true it is, that " Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day." Unhappy, heedless children of this world ! when will ye become wise? When will ye understand these... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Bible - 1819 - 616 pages
...•," AH nations rose from eartn at first, And turn to earth again. 5 A thousand ages, in thy eight, Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, • Before the rising sun. 6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their lives and cares, -t Are carry'd downwards by... | |
 | Abner Kneeland - Hymns, English - 1819 - 666 pages
...a song: . By swift degrees our nature dies, Nor can our joys be long. 2 Time, like an ever-flowing stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. 3 There are but few whose days amount To threescore years and ten; And oft, beyond that... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Bible - 1819 - 636 pages
...carry'd downwards by the flood, And lost in following years.] e 7 Time, like an ever-rolling streairi, ' Bears all its sons away;''"- -. They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. o 8 Like flow'ry fields the nations stand, Pleas'd with the morning light:. •'•' ''•'"•... | |
 | Bible - 1820 - 414 pages
...order stood, Or earth received her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone,...the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 4 But, like an ever-flowing stream, Time bears its sons away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - Bible - 1820 - 314 pages
...dust, " Return, ye sons of men :" All natipns rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 5 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone;...watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their lives and cares, Are carry 'd downward by the... | |
 | Isaac Watts, James Manning Winchell - Bible - 1820 - 308 pages
...dust. " Return, ye sons of men :" All nations rose from eartli at first, And turn to earth again. 5 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that eri'ds the night, Before the rising sun. WATTS', P 6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all... | |
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A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening gone, short as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun. 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons away; they fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. 
