<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=412946" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Psalm 39 part 2</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">v.4-7 <br>C. M.<br>The vanity of man as mortal.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Teach me the measure of my days,<br>Thou Maker of my frame;<br>I would survey life's narrow space,<br>And learn how frail I am.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A span is all that we can boast,<br>An inch or two of time;<br>Man is but vanity and dust<br>In all his flower and prime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">See the vain race of mortals move<br>Like shadows o'er the plain;<br>They rage and strive, desire and love,<br>But all the noise is vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some walk in honor's gaudy show,<br>Some dig for golden ore;<br>They toil for heirs, they know not who,<br>And straight are seen no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What should I wish or wait for, then,<br>From creatures earth and dust?<br>They make our expectations vain,<br>And disappoint our trust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now I forbid my carnal hope,<br>My fond desires recall;<br>I give my mortal interest up,<br>And make my God my all.</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=412946" data-title="Psalm 39 part 2 de Isaac Watts" data-description="v.4-7 C. M. The vanity of man as mortal. Teach me the measure of my days, Thou Maker of my frame; I would survey life's narrow space, And learn how frail I am. A span is all that we can boast, An inch or two of time; Man is but vanity and dust ..."></div> </div> </div>

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