The Works of the Reverend and Learned Isaac Watts, D. D. Containing, besides his Sermons, and Essays on miscellaneous subjects, several additional pieces, Selected from his Manuscripts by the Rev. Dr. Jennings, and the Rev. Dr. Doddridge, in 1753: to which are prefixed, memoirs of the life of the author, compiled by the Rev. George Burder. In six volumes |
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HYMN 39. (C. M.) The Shortness and Misery of Life.
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Our days, alas! our mortal daysAre short and wretched too;
‘Evil and few,’ the patriarch says,
And well the patriarch knew.
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'Tis but at best a narrow boundThat heaven allows to men,
And pains and sins run through the round
Of threescore years and ten.
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Well, if ye must be sad and few,Run on my days in haste;
Moments of sin, and months of woe,
Ye cannot fly too fast.
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Let heavenly love perpare my soul,And call her to the skies,
Where years of long salvation roll,
And glory never dies.
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