A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. (Isaac Watts)

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

Isaac Watts

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