 | Charlotte Brontë - Fiction - 1993 - 500 pages
...flesh to dust, "Return, ye sons of men;" All nations rose from earth at first, And turn to earth again. 'A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone Short as the watch that ends tlie night Before the rising sun. 'Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away, They... | |
 | J. Marshall Jenkins - Bibles - 1994 - 158 pages
...took me thirty-two years to hear the words of that hymn, but several Sundays ago I finally heard them: "A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun." I remembered the thousand ages I saw in the earth's crust rising by the highway, how I could... | |
 | Bertus Frederick Polman, Marilyn Kay Stulken, James Rawlings Sydnor - Religion - 1994 - 328 pages
...order stood, Or earth received its frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever rolling stream, Soon bears us all away; We fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at... | |
 | Madeleine Forell Marshall - Music - 1995 - 230 pages
...order stood, Or Earth receiv'd her Frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless Years the same. 4. Thy Word commands our Flesh to Dust, Return, ye...as the Watch that ends the Night Before the rising Sun. 6. The busy Tribes of Flesh and Blood With all their Lives and Cares Are carried downwards by... | |
 | Gene Wolfe - Fiction - 1995 - 452 pages
...cover, and begin to read, before you ever come to the text proper you will strike four lines of verse: A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. All four of the volumes are prefaced by similar epigraphs. Since the publication of Shadow, I... | |
 | William J. Petersen, Randy Petersen - Music - 1995 - 772 pages
...order stood. Or earth received her frame, From everlasting Thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night. Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons away; They fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies... | |
 | William Closson James - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 289 pages
...MacLennan's novel is, of course, to be found in a line of Isaac Watts' paraphrase of the Ninetieth Psalm: "A thousand ages in thy sight / Are like an evening...the watch that ends the night / Before the rising sun." The entire psalm, referred to several times in the novel, is a meditation on the brevity of life... | |
 | Barbara Pell, Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 153 pages
...transcendence which is foreshadowed in the title, taken from the old Protestant hymn based on Psalm 90: A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone....as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come; Be thou our guard while troubles last,... | |
 | Lyn Klug - Religion - 1998 - 184 pages
...order stood, Or earth receiv'd her frame, From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. A thousand ages in thy sight Are like an evening gone;...as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. Our God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come, Be thou our guard while troubles last,... | |
 | William Gadsby - Catechisms, English - 1995 - 950 pages
...order stood, Or earth received her frame From everlasting thou art God, To endless years the same. 4 [Thy word commands our flesh to dust, "Return, ye...as the watch that ends the night, Before the rising sun. 6 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, 7 O God, our Help in ages past, Our Hope for years to come,... | |
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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. 
