 | Book - 1871 - 366 sider
...waking eye ; Or as the grass that cannot term obtaip To see the summer come about again. Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...mortality. This bubble light, this vapour of our breath, Tea'-h us to consecrate the hour of death. 227. T IKE shadows gliding o'er the plain, •" Or clouds... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 852 sider
...face ? If thy displeasure thou dost not refrain, A moment brings all back to dust again. Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...wisdom to apply; For that which guides man best in all bis ways, Is meditation of mortality. This bubble light, this vapour of our breath, Teach us to consecrate... | |
 | Hymns, John Rylands - 1885 - 612 sider
...face ? If Thy displeasure Thou dost not refrain, A moment brings all back to dust again. Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...meditation of mortality ; This bubble light, this favour of our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of death. Return unto us, Lord, and balance now... | |
 | 1885 - 784 sider
...words of Lord Bacon have been frequently in my mind: — " Teach us, O Lord, to number well our dales, Thereby our hearts to wisdom to apply ; For that which guides man best in all his waie«, Is meditation of mortality!" nf Clarenre. BT MISS EMILY S. HOLT, OP STUBBYLEE, BACTJP. Seven... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1897 - 356 sider
...God thou wert, and art, and still shalt be; The line of time, it doth not measure thee. Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...Is meditation of mortality. This bubble light, this vapor of our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of death. Return unto us. Lord, and balance now,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 466 sider
...waking eye ; Or as the grass that cannot term obtain To see the summer come about again. Teach us O, Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of Death. If this is not poetry of the highest order, it is something more than rhetoric in rhyme. But imagine... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1903 - 468 sider
...waking eye ; Or as the grass that cannot term obtain To see the summer come about again. Teach us O, Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of Death. If this is not poetry of the highest order, it is something more than rhetoric in rhyme. But imagine... | |
 | John Hawley Stotsenburg - 1904 - 556 sider
...waking eye, Or as the grass that cannot term obtain To see the summer come about again. Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...all his ways Is meditation of mortality. This bubble life, this vapor of our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of death." The second is a short extract... | |
 | 1905 - 858 sider
...acknowledged verses are "unmitigated doggerel." Another of the translations reads: — Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...Is meditation of mortality. This bubble light, this vapor of our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of death. Return unto us, Lord, and balance now.... | |
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Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts to wisdom to apply ; For that which guides man best in all his ways, Is meditation of mortality. 
