 | English poetry - 1802 - 448 pages
...from earth at first And turn to i -::'.!i again. 5. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an ev'ning gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. 20 [0. The busy tribes of flesh and blood With all their lives and cares, Are rarry'd downwards by... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone, Short as the watch that ends the night Before...The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their cares and fears, Are carry'd downward by the flood, And lost in foll'wing years. Time, like an ever-rolling... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - Bible - 1812 - 530 pages
...rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 4 Time, like an ever-running stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 5 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an ev'ning gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before 'the rising sun. в [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their lives and cares, Are carry'd downwards by thy... | |
 | John Wesley, Charles Wesley - Hymns, English - 1816 - 602 pages
...everlasting thou art God, To endless, years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 3 The husy trihes of flesh and hlood, With all their cares and fears, Are carried downward hy the flood,... | |
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - Hymns, English - 1817 - 610 pages
...everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone; . Short as the watch that ends the night* Before the rising sun. ^5 The husy trihes of. flesh and hlood, With all their cares and fears, Are carried downward hy the... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...rose from earth at first. Aud turn to earth again. A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening gone ; Short as the watch that ends the night, Before...blood, "With all their lives and cares, Are carried downwards by the flood, And lost in following years. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Bible - 1818 - 612 pages
...from eartn at first, « And turn to earth again. 5 A thousand ages, in thy sight, 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, } Are carry'd downwards hy the... | |
 | John Wesley - 1818 - 306 pages
...everlasting thou art God} To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening gone ; Short as the 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... | |
 | Isaac Watts - Bible - 1819 - 616 pages
...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 the flood, And lost in following years. 1 Time, like an ever-rolling stream,... | |
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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. 
