 | Michael Dirda - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 204 pages
...AND THE DARK Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man. — Leon Trotsky 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 Petersen, Ardythe Petersen - Religion - 2015 - 697 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... | |
 | Martin Manser - Music - 2006 - 290 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... | |
 | 2006 - 90 pages
...HELP IN AGES PAST OUR HOPE FOR YEARS TO COME, OUR SHELTER FROM THE STORMY BLAST, AND OUR ETERNAL HOME: A THOUSAND AGES IN THY SIGHT ARE LIKE AN EVENING GONE; SHORT AS THE WATCH THAT ENDS THE NIGHT TIME, LIKE AN EVER-ROLLING STREAM, BEARS ALL ITS SONS AWAY: THEY FLY FORGOTTEN AS A DREAM DIES AT THE... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 2006 - 398 pages
...customary sharp pace, that he might get beyond its reach. Thy word commands our 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' the night Before... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 2006 - 470 pages
...customary sharp pace, that he might get beyond its reach. Thy word commands our 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' the night Before... | |
 | Jan Wells - Religion - 2007 - 162 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...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 guide while life shall last,... | |
 | George L. Klein - Religion - 2008 - 490 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... | |
 | Thomas Hardy - Authors, English - 2007 - 532 pages
...waste. Thou sweep'st us off as with a flood, We vanish hence like dreams . . . Watts (more diffusely): 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... | |
 | David Lyon Bartlett, Barbara Brown Taylor - Religion - 2008 - 474 pages
...a vantage that begins to approach the way God knows the world. A stanza of a well-known hymn says, "A thousand ages in thy sight are like an evening...as the watch that ends the night before the rising sun." The flawed move being challenged is the equivalent of collapsing the promises of God onto the... | |
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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. 
