<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412791" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hymn 88</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life the day of grace and hope.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eccl. 9:4-6,10. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is the time to serve the Lord,<br>The time t' insure the great reward;<br>And while the lamp holds out to burn,<br>The vilest sinner may return.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Life is the hour that God has giv'n<br>To 'scape from hell and fly to heav'n;<br>The day of grace, and mortals may<br>Secure the blessings of the day.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The living know that they must die,<br>But all the dead forgotten lie;<br>Their mem'ry and their sense is gone,<br>Alike unknowing and unknown.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Their hatred and their love is lost,<br>Their envy buried in the dust;<br>They have no share in all that's done<br>Beneath the circuit of the sun.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then what my thoughts design to do,<br>My hands, with all your might pursue;<br>Since no device nor work is found,<br>Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are no acts of pardon passed<br>In the cold grave, to which we haste;<br>But darkness, death, and long despair,<br>Reign in eternal silence there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Isaac+Watts">Isaac Watts</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412791" data-title="Hymn 88 de Isaac Watts" data-description="Life the day of grace and hope. Eccl. 9:4-6,10. Life is the time to serve the Lord, The time t' insure the great reward; And while the lamp holds out to burn, The vilest sinner may return. [Life is the hour that God has giv'n To 'scape from he..."></div> </div> </div>

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