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==General information== | ==General information== | ||
This is an hymn by [[Isaac Watts]], his Hymn 32 of Book 2, published in 1709. | |||
==Settings by composers== | ==Settings by composers== | ||
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How short and hasty is our life! | |||
How vast our souls' affairs! | |||
Yet senseless mortals vainly strive | |||
To lavish out their years. | |||
Our days run thoughtlessly along, | |||
Without a moment's stay; | |||
Just like a story or a song | |||
We pass our lives away. | |||
God from on high invites us home, | |||
But we march heedless on, | |||
And ever hastening to the tomb, | |||
Stoop downwards as we run. | |||
How we deserve the deepest hell, | |||
That slight the joys above! | |||
What chains of vengeance should we feel, | |||
That break such cords of love! | |||
Draw us, O God, with sovereign grace, | |||
And lift our thoughts on high, | |||
That we may end this mortal race, | |||
And see salvation nigh. | |||
</poem> | |||
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Revision as of 02:28, 29 March 2015
General information
This is an hymn by Isaac Watts, his Hymn 32 of Book 2, published in 1709.
Settings by composers
- William Billings — Worcester English SATB
- Ebenezer Child — Benson English SATB
- Eliakim Doolittle — Solemnity English SATB
- Alexander Gillet — Turkey Hills English SATB
- Jacob Kimball — Bradford English SATB
Text and translations
English text How short and hasty is our life! |