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==General Information== | ==General Information== | ||
{{Title|''The Swiftness of Time''}} | |||
{{FirstLine|My days, my weeks, my months, my years}} | |||
{{Composer|Jeremiah Ingalls}} | {{Composer|Jeremiah Ingalls}} | ||
{{Lyricist|Thomas Green}} | {{Lyricist|Thomas Green}} | ||
{{Voicing|3|STB}} | {{Voicing|3|STB}} | ||
{{Genre|Sacred|}} | {{Genre|Sacred|}} | ||
{{Language|English}} | {{Language|English}} | ||
{{Instruments|A cappella}} | {{Instruments|A cappella}} | ||
{{ | {{Pub|1|1805|in Ingalls' ''[[The Christian Harmony (Jeremiah Ingalls)|The Christian Harmony]]'', p. 83, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass.}} | ||
{{Descr|Words by [[Thomas Green]], published 1780, entitled ''Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day'', first line ''My days and weeks, and months and years'', with eleven stanzas. Ingalls uses a version in Smith and Sleeper's ''Divine Hymns or Spiritual Songs'', 1794, with ten stanzas.}} | |||
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==Original text and translations== | |||
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'''''Poems on Various Subjects, Chiefly Sacred, by the Late Mr. Thomas Green, of Ware, Hertfordshire''. 1780''' | |||
:''Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day'' | |||
My days and weeks, and months and years, | |||
Fly rapid as the whirling spheres | |||
Around the steady pole; | |||
Time, like the tide, its motion keeps, | |||
Till I shall launch those boundless deeps | |||
Where endless ages roll. | |||
The grave is near the cradle seen, | |||
How swift the moments pass between, | |||
And whisper, as they fly, | |||
Unthinking man! remember this, | |||
Thou, 'midst thy sublunary bliss, | |||
Must gasp and groan and die. | |||
My soul, attend the solemn call, | |||
Thy crazy cottage soon will fall, | |||
And thou must take thy flight | |||
Above yon wide ethereal blue, | |||
To love and sing as angels do | |||
Or sink in endless night. | |||
Eternal bliss, or endless woe, | |||
Hangs on this inch of time below, | |||
This poor precarious breath: | |||
The God of nature only knows, | |||
Whether another year shall close, | |||
Ere l expire in death. | |||
Before the sun shall run its round, | |||
I may be buried under ground, | |||
And there in silence rot: | |||
Alas, one hour may close the scene, | |||
And ere twelve months shall intervene, | |||
My name be quite forgot. | |||
But will my soul be then extinct, | |||
And cease to live, or cease to think? | |||
It cannot, cannot be: | |||
Thou, my immortal, must not die! | |||
What wilt thou do, or whither fly, | |||
When death has set thee free? | |||
Will mercy then her arms extend? | |||
Will Jesus be thy guardian friend, | |||
And heaven thy dwelling place ? | |||
Or shall insulting fiends appear, | |||
To drag thee down to black despair, | |||
Beyond the reach of grace? | |||
Lord, at thy footstool I would bow, | |||
And humbly beg assistance now, | |||
To know my real state; | |||
While life and health and time endure, | |||
Fain would l make my heaven secure, | |||
Before it be too late. | |||
If in destruction's road I stray, | |||
Help me to choose that better way | |||
Which leads to joys on high; | |||
My soul renew, my sins forgive, | |||
Nor let me ever dare to live | |||
Such as I dare not die! | |||
But if thy grace hath changed my heart, | |||
Thy beams of comfort, Lord, impart, | |||
To gild my future days; | |||
Go on to bless; and let me see | |||
How great my obligations be | |||
To speak and live thy praise. | |||
With thee let every day be past, | |||
And when that comes, which proves my last, | |||
May glory dawn within! | |||
Then banish from me every doubt; | |||
And, ere life's glimmering lamp goes out, | |||
Let 'endless joys begin.}} | |||
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'''Joshua Smith and Samuel Sleeper, ''Divine Hymns or Spiritual Songs'', 1794''' | |||
:''On the Swiftness of Time'' | |||
1. My days, my weeks, my months, my years | |||
Fly rapid like the whirling spheres, | |||
Around the steady pole; | |||
Time like a tide its motion keeps, | |||
Till I shall launch those boundless deeps, | |||
Where endless ages roll. | |||
2. The grave is near the cradle seen, | |||
How swift the moments pass between, | |||
And whisper as they fly, | |||
Unthinking man remember this, | |||
Thou 'midst thy sublunary bliss, | |||
Must groan and gasp and die. | |||
3. My soul attend the solemn call, | |||
Thine earthly tent must quickly fall, | |||
And thou must take thy flight | |||
Beyond the vast extensive blue, | |||
To love and sing as angels do, | |||
Or sink in endless night. | |||
4. Eternal bliss, eternal woe | |||
{{ | Hangs on this inch of time below, | ||
On this precarious breath: | |||
The God of nature only knows, | |||
Whether another year shall close | |||
Ere I expire in death. | |||
5. Long ere the sun shall run its round | |||
I may be buried under ground, | |||
And there in silence rot: | |||
Alas! one hour may close the scene, | |||
And ere twelve months may roll between | |||
My name be quite forgot. | |||
6. But shall my soul be then extinct, | |||
And cease to live or cease to think? | |||
It cannot, cannot be; | |||
Thou, my immortal cannot die, | |||
What wilt thou do, or whither fly | |||
When death shall set thee free? | |||
7. Will mercy then its arm extend? | |||
Will Jesus be thy guardian friend, | |||
And heaven thy dwelling-place? | |||
Or shall insulting fiends appear, | |||
To drag thee down to dark despair, | |||
Beyond the reach of grace? | |||
8. A heaven or hell, and these alone, | |||
Beyond this mortal life are known; | |||
There is no middle state; | |||
Today attend the call divine, | |||
Tomorrow may be none of thine, | |||
Or it may be too late. | |||
9. O! do not pass this life in dreams, | |||
Vast is the change what-e'er it seems | |||
To poor unthinking men; | |||
Lord, at thy footstool I would bow, | |||
Bid conscience tell me plainly now | |||
What it will tell me then. | |||
10. If in destruction's road I stray, | |||
Help me to choose that better way | |||
Which leads to joys on high; | |||
Thy grace impart, my guilt forgive; | |||
Nor let me ever dare to live | |||
Such as I dare not die.}} | |||
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- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-05-29). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 42 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Four-part version; Counter part written by B. C. Johnston, 2017. Note shapes added (4-shape). Ten stanzas included, as in Ingalls 1805.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-05-29). Score information: Letter, 1 page, 69 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Three-part version. Oval note edition, as written in 1805. Ten stanzas included, as in Ingalls 1805.
- Editor: Barry Johnston (submitted 2017-05-29). Score information: 7 x 10 inches (landscape), 1 page, 40 kB Copyright: Public Domain
- Edition notes: Three-part version. Note shapes added (4-shape). Ten stanzas included, as in Ingalls 1905.
General Information
Title: The Swiftness of Time
First Line: My days, my weeks, my months, my years
Composer: Jeremiah Ingalls
Lyricist: Thomas Green
Number of voices: 3vv Voicing: STB
Genre: Sacred
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
First published: 1805 in Ingalls' The Christian Harmony, p. 83, for three voices: Treble-Tenor-Bass
Description: Words by Thomas Green, published 1780, entitled Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day, first line My days and weeks, and months and years, with eleven stanzas. Ingalls uses a version in Smith and Sleeper's Divine Hymns or Spiritual Songs, 1794, with ten stanzas.
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Original text and translations
English text Poems on Various Subjects, Chiefly Sacred, by the Late Mr. Thomas Green, of Ware, Hertfordshire. 1780 |
Joshua Smith and Samuel Sleeper, Divine Hymns or Spiritual Songs, 1794 |
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