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Lord, let me know mine end, My days, how brief their date, That I may timely comprehend How frail my best estate. My life is but a span Mine age is nought with Thee; Man, in his highest honour, man Is dust and vanity.
Lord, let me know mine end, My days, how brief their date, That I may timely comprehend How frail my best estate. My life is but a span Mine age is nought with Thee; Man, in his highest honour, man Is dust and vanity.
Approximate author period: c. 1812 AD · industrial
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- James Montgomery
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- Approximate author period: c. 1812 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 634 · printed citation: James Montgomery · subject: VANITY
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