| Collection - 1807 - 650 pages
...a song : By swift degrees our nature dies, Nor can our joys be long. 'J 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 len : And oft beyond that... | |
| Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...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 stream, Bears all its sons...away : They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. • " "* Thou tur'nest man, O Lord, to dust, Of which he first was made; And when thou... | |
| Hymns, English - 1812 - 76 pages
...frame, From everlasting Thon art God ! To endless years the same ! 4 A thousand ages in Thy sight. » 5 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. 6 O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to to come ; Be Thou our guard whilst... | |
| Jeremy Belknap - Bible - 1812 - 530 pages
...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 at the opening day. •i 'Tis but a few whose days amount To threescore years and ten ; And all beyond that short account... | |
| Isaac Watts - Dissenters, Religious - 1813 - 574 pages
...all their lives and cares, Are carry'd downwards by thy flood, And lost in following year». 7 IPime like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away ; They fly, forgotten as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. 8 Like flow'rv fields the nations stand, Pleas'd with the mornincr right : The aow'rs... | |
| Abijah Davis - Bible - 1813 - 420 pages
...and grow, Till death the mower cuts them down, And lays their glory low. 6 Time, like an overflowing stream, Bears all its sons away, They fly forgotten, as a dream Flies at the dawing day. 7 O God, our help in ages past) Our rest, our dwelling place, Defend us from... | |
| Reformed Church in America, John Henry Livingston - Bible - 1814 - 696 pages
...order stood, Or earth receiv'd her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 3 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the op'ning day. 4 Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while... | |
| Jeremy Belknap - Bible - 1817 - 550 pages
...as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 4 Time, like an ever-running stream, Hears all its sons away ; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. 5 'Tis but a few whose days amoutvt To threescore years and ten ', //* And ail beyond that short account... | |
| 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... | |
| Richard Herne Shepherd - Hymns, English - 1818 - 684 pages
...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 sons...fly forgotten, as a dream, Dies at the opening day. Like flow'ry fields the nations stand, Pleas'd with the morning light ; The flow'rs beneath the mower's... | |
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