 | Dyer - 1767 - 300 pages
...Or Earth receiv'd her Frame ! From Everlafting thou art God, To endlefs Years the fame. .A thoufand Ages in thy Sight, Are like an Evening gone : Short as the Watch that ends the Night, Before the rifing Sun. The bufy tribes of Flefh and Blood, With all their Cares and Fears, Are carry'd downward... | |
 | Thomas Jones (chaplain to the earl of Peterborough) - 1812 - 486 pages
...order stood, Or earth receiv'd its frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone,...the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. The busy tribes of flesh and blood, With all their cares and fears, Are carry'd downward by the flood,... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1812 - 530 pages
...dust, " Return, ye sons of men ;" All nations rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 3 A thousand ages in thy sight, Are like an evening...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... | |
 | 1815 - 296 pages
...throne, Thy saints have dwelt secure; Sufficient is ihine arm alone, And our defence is sure. /J~3r~ 5 A thousand ages, in thy sight, Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that euds the night, IÎ efore the rising sun. /I» в 7 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Hears all its... | |
 | John Wesley, Charles Wesley - 1816 - 602 pages
...is thine arm alone, And our defence is sure. • Before the hills in order stood, On earth receiv'd her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless,...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 - 1817 - 610 pages
...Sufficient is thine arm alone, And our defence is sure. 3 Before the hills in order stood, Or earth receiv'd her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless...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... | |
 | Jeremy Belknap - 1817 - 538 pages
...dust, " Return, ye sons of men ;" All nations 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 tlte night; Before the rising sun. 4 Time, like an ever-running stream, Bears all its sons away ; They,... | |
 | Isaac Watts - 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Richard Herne Shepherd - 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,... | |
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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. 6 O God! our... 
