• A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

    Isaac Watts: A thousand ages in Thy sight 
 Are like an evening gone; 
 Short as the watch that ends the night 
 Before the rising sun.
    Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Rev. Isaac Watts”, p.148