University of Virginia Library

Search this document 

1887.

[Broken the Man of griefs appears]

Thou art not yet fifty years old. —viii. 57.

Broken the Man of griefs appears,
The Man of griefs He stands confess'd
Not by the weight of numerous years,
But by our numerous sins oppress'd,
Faded in youth, grown old so soon,
He shows His sun must set at noon.