 | Selection - 1822 - 276 pàgines
...lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ! 3 Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream ! Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise : All below is hut a dream ! 4 Thanks for mercies past receive ; Pardon of our sins renew : Teach, O, teach us how... | |
 | West Church (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 376 pàgines
...probation's day, They have done with all below; We a little longer stay, But how little, none can know. 3 As the winged arrow flies Speedily, the mark to find...lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; 4 Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream ; Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise,... | |
 | Central Universalist Society (Boston, Mass.) - 1823 - 408 pàgines
...little longer stay, But how little, none can know. 2 As the winged arrow flies Quick, the destin'd mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; So our brief and transient days To their end speed swiftly on ^ Soon we pass life's little space,... | |
 | William Augustus Muhlenberg - 1823 - 286 pàgines
...a little longer wait, But how little none can know. 2 As the winged arrow flies, Swift its destin'd mark to find; As the lightning from the skies, Darts and leaves no trace behind; Thus with speed our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream: Lord, on high our wishes raise;... | |
 | John Newton - 1824 - 638 pàgines
...state, They have done with all below ; We a little longer wait, But how little — none can know. % As the winged arrow flies, Speedily the mark to find...leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream ; Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise, All below is but a dream. S Thanks... | |
 | John Newton, Richard Cecil - 1824 - 748 pàgines
...state, They have done with all below ; We a little longer wait, But how little — none can know. 2 As the winged arrow flies, Speedily the mark to find...leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream ; Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise, All below is but a dream. 3 Thanks... | |
 | Henry Devereux Sewall - 1824 - 418 pàgines
...little longer stay, But how little, none can know. 3 As the winged arrow flies Quick, the destined mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; 4 So our brief and transient days To their end speed swiftly on ; Soon we pass life's little space,... | |
 | 1825 - 260 pàgines
...a little longer wait, But how UttleNnone can know. 8 As the winged arrow flies, Swift its destined mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; — Thus with speed our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream : Lord ! on high our wishes... | |
 | Jonathan Peele Dabney - 1825 - 392 pàgines
...little longer stay ; But how little, none can know. 2 As the winged arrow flies Quick the destined mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind : So our brief and transient days Bear us down life's rapid stream ; Upward, Lord, our spirits raise... | |
 | 1826 - 474 pàgines
...probation's day, They have done with all below ; We a little longer stay, But how little none can know. 2. As the winged arrow flies, Speedily the mark to find...leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream : Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise ; All below is but a dream. 3.... | |
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As the winged arrow flies, Speedily the mark to find ; As the lightning from the skies Darts, and leaves no trace behind ; Swiftly thus our fleeting days Bear us down life's rapid stream : Upward, Lord, our spirits raise ; All below is but a dream. 
