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[The sentence pass'd on Adam's race]

It is appointed unto men once to die. —ix. 27.

The sentence pass'd on Adam's race
I meekly in myself receive,

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And thank Thee for the warning grace,
That here I have not long to live:
I hasten to my real home,
For no reprieve, or respite cry;
But when the fatal hour is come,
My only business be—to die.