 | Devotional literature, English - 1855 - 488 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, I have seen; I passed, and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. Ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life ? it is even a vapour, that appeareth... | |
 | William Cowper, Henry Stebbing - 1856 - 430 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I pass'd— and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A -worm is in the "bud of youth, And at the root of age. * Composed for John Cox, parish clerk of Northampton No present health can health ensure For yet an... | |
 | Septimus Sears - 1856 - 906 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I passed, and they were gone! " Read, ye that ran, the awful truth With which I charge my page,— A worm is at the hud of youth, And at the root of age. " No present health can health insure For yet an hour... | |
 | 1857 - 986 pages
...the awful truth of Cowper's lines was taught by a fierce discipline of agony — " Read ye that run the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age." Early in the year 1 823 the racking pains which had afflicted him during the twelve months succeeding... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1857 - 366 pages
...him the awful moral of Cowper's lines was taught by a fierce discipline of ^ J " Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. ' Early in the year 1823, the racking pains which had afflicted him during the twelve months succeeding... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1857 - 366 pages
...life began, and to him the awful moral of Cowper's lines was taught by a fierce discipline of agony With which I charge my page ; A worm is in the "bud of youth, And at the root of age." Early in the year 1823, the racking pains which had afflicted him during the twelve months succeeding... | |
 | Leeds Sunday School Union (Leeds) - Hymns, English - 1858 - 360 pages
...on, The gay, the thoughtless have I seen ; I passed, — and they were gone ! 8 Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ; A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age ! 4 No present health can health insure, For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft may cure,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1860 - 506 pages
...us all. The gay, the thoughtless, have I seen, I passed — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth, With which I charge my page ; A worm...is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. No present health can health ensure For yet an hour to come ; No medicine, though it oft can cure Can... | |
 | John Robinson (M.A., of Oriel College, Oxford.) - 1860 - 354 pages
...foliage on, The gay, the thoughtless have I seen ; I passed, and they were gone. 3. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page — A...worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 4. Then let us fly, to Jesus fly, Whose powerful arm can save ; So shall our hopes ascend on high,... | |
 | Roger Carus Wilson - 1860 - 276 pages
...our life secure, And save us from the tomb. 4 Lord, may we mark the awful truth, Reveal'd in sacred page ;-*A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 294™ Scrolt. Uncertainty of life a reason for watching. SM 1 rPO-MORROW, Lord, is Thine, Lodged in... | |
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I pass'd, — and they were gone. Read, ye that run, the awful truth With which I charge my page ! A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. 
