 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...  Psalms and Hymns, Adapted to Public Worship - Pàgina 143per Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. - 1833 - 669 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Noam Chomsky - 1993 - 824 pàgines
..."Fourscore and seven years ago...." 211 Watts' paraphrase further adds Heraciitus' image of time as a river: "Time, like an ever-rolling stream, / Bears all its...forgotten, as a dream / Dies at the opening day." 212 But E. Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry, 24, thinks it usually has the... | |
 | Stephen Jenks - 1995 - 482 pàgines
...Pleas'd with the morning light; The flow'rs beneath the mower's hand Lie with'ring, ere 'tis night. 3. Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years...our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home. Intercession CM died"; And then he shows his o- pen veins, And pleads his _ wound- ed side. ij V ff... | |
 | William J. Petersen, Randy Petersen - 1995 - 772 pàgines
...Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night. Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come; Be Thou our guide while life shall last.... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall - 1995 - 230 pàgines
...With all their Lives and Cares Are carried downwards by thy Flood, And lost in following Years. 7. Time like an ever-rolling Stream Bears all its Sons...fly forgotten as a Dream Dies at the opening Day. 8. Like flow'ry Fields the Nations stand Pleas'd with the Morning-light; The Flowers beneath the Mower's... | |
 | William J. Carl - 1997 - 180 pàgines
...something that also takes us — forever onward, and then away, as Isaac Watts voiced it well in that hymn: Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. Some years ago Howard Thurman shared with me a prayer-poem about the need for courage to live. He did... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pàgines
...Ceorgics, bk. 3, I. 284 (29 BC). The Latin, fugit irreparabile ternpus, is usually quoted tempus fugit. 16 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. ISAAC WATTS, (1674-1748) British hymnwriter. "Psalm 90," St. 5, The Psalms of David Imitated (1719).... | |
 | Lyn Klug - 1998 - 184 pàgines
...in thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years...our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home. — Isaac Watts, England (1674-1748) Whoever has faith in me shall have life, even though he die. And... | |
 | Merold Westphal - 1999 - 302 pàgines
...its many expressions often speaks of home, as is evident in the words of a famous Isaac Watts hymn: Our God, our help in ages past. Our hope for years...our guard while troubles last, And our eternal home. Augustine's restless heart yearning for a home of solace and serenity has a seemingly universal resonance.1... | |
 | Kallistos (Bishop of Diokleia) - 2000 - 254 pàgines
...voices. For Isaac Watts, time with its irreversible flow brings about a sense of loss and unreality: Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. An equally somber view is to be found in the main biblical work devoted to the theme of time, Ecclesiastes.... | |
 | Ronald Arbuthnott Knox - 2001 - 196 pàgines
...congregation that celebrated his obsequies reminded one another, to the plaintive pealing of the organ, that Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day, how many of them gave a thought to the poignantly contrasted character ofthat English king who built... | |
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