 | Sarah Smith - 1907 - 136 sider
...no more. Why should there be such turmoil and such strife, To spin in length that feeble Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of death. George Gissing From ' The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft.' By Permission of the Author's executors.... | |
 | Rob Roy McGregor Converse - 1916 - 368 sider
...Hath at length brought forth a lie." Vv'ith Bacon's translation of a verse from Psalm xc: "Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days, Thereby our hearts...meditation of mortality. This bubble light — this vapor of our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of Death." His prose betrays a cast of mind distinctly... | |
 | Sir Henry John Newbolt - 1922 - 1032 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...best in all his ways, Is meditation of mortality. The bubble light, this vapour of our breath, Teach us to consecrate to hour of Death. OF LOVE THE Stage... | |
 | Laurance Wieder - 1999 - 338 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...apply; For that which guides man best in all his ways, CAREW i j- • r iIs meditation of mortality. Psalm 91 This bubble light, this vapor of our breath,... | |
 | Peter W. Flint, Patrick D. jr Miller, Aaron Brunell, Ryan Roberts - 2005 - 717 sider
...invitation to remember our mortality and gain wisdom, "Teach us, O Lord, to number well our days ... for that which guides man best in all his ways, is meditation of mortality." Isaac Watts in the early eighteenth century emphasized the contrast between the eternal God and ephemeral... | |
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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. 
