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 (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.148
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