...blood. With all their lives and cares, Are carried downwards by thy flood, And lost in following years. rk 'Longinus o'er a Bottle, Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.' 30 Thou shall not set (1. 21—28) 4 Be thou our guard while troubles last. And our eternal home. (1. 35-36) NoP; OBVE; PWR;...

..."Fourscore and seven years ago...." 211 Watts' paraphrase further adds Heraciitus' image of time as a river: "Time, like an ever-rolling stream, / Bears all its...forgotten, as a dream / Dies at the opening day." 212 But E. Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry, 24, thinks it usually has the...

...Sun. 6. The busy Tribes of Flesh and Blood With all their Lives and Cares Are carried downwards by thy Flood, And lost in following Years. 7. Time like an...forgotten as a Dream Dies at the opening Day. 8. Like flow'ry Fields the Nations stand Pleas'd with the Morning-light; The Flowers beneath the Mower's Hand...

...Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night. Before the rising sun. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly, forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. O God, our help in ages past, Our hope for years to come; Be Thou our guide while life shall last....

...Ceorgics, bk. 3, I. 284 (29 BC). The Latin, fugit irreparabile ternpus, is usually quoted tempus fugit. 16 Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. ISAAC WATTS, (1674-1748) British hymnwriter. "Psalm 90," St. 5, The Psalms of David Imitated (1719)....

...something that also takes us — forever onward, and then away, as Isaac Watts voiced it well in that hymn: Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. Some years ago Howard Thurman shared with me a prayer-poem about the need for courage to live. He did...

...voices. For Isaac Watts, time with its irreversible flow brings about a sense of loss and unreality: Time, like an ever-rolling stream, Bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day. An equally somber view is to be found in the main biblical work devoted to the theme of time, Ecclesiastes....

...congregation that celebrated his obsequies reminded one another, to the plaintive pealing of the organ, that Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons...fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day, how many of them gave a thought to the poignantly contrasted character ofthat English king who built...

...order stood or earth received her frame, from everlasting Thou art God, to endless years the same. Time, like an ever-rolling stream, bears all its sons...fly, forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day. O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years to come, be Thou our guide while life shall last,...

...congregation that celebrated his obsequies reminded one another, to the plaintive pealing of the organ, that Time like an ever-rolling stream bears all its sons...They fly forgotten, as a dream dies at the opening day,2 how many of them gave a thought to the poignantly contrasted character of that English king who...