<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=538574" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hour-Glass And Bible</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Look, Christian, on thy Bible, and that glass<br>That sheds its sand through minutes, hours, and days,<br>And years; it speaks not, yet, methinks, it says,<br>To every human heart: so mortals pass<br>On to their dark and silent grave! Alas<br>For man! an exile upon earth he strays,<br>Weary, and wandering through benighted ways;<br>To-day in strength, to-morrow like the grass<br>That withers at his feet!--Lift up thy head,<br>Poor pilgrim, toiling in this vale of tears;<br>That book declares whose blood for thee was shed,<br>Who died to give thee life; and though thy years<br>Pass like a shade, pointing to thy death-bed,<br>Out of the deep thy cry an angel hears,<br>And by his guiding hand thy steps to heaven are led!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Lisle+Bowles">William Lisle Bowles</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=538574" data-title="Hour-Glass And Bible de William Lisle Bowles" data-description="Look, Christian, on thy Bible, and that glass That sheds its sand through minutes, hours, and days, And years; it speaks not, yet, methinks, it says, To every human heart: so mortals pass On to their dark and silent grave! Alas For man! an exile u..."></div> </div> </div>

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