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Text:How long, sometimes, a day appears!
Author:Taylor

905. How long, sometimes, a day appears!

1 How long, sometimes, a day appears!
And weeks, how long are they!
Months move on slow, as if the years
Would never pass away.

2 But even years are passing by,
And soon must all be gone;
For day by day, as minutes fly,
Eternity comes on.

3 Days, months, and years must have an end:
Eternity has none;
'Twill always have as long to spend
As when it first begun.

4 Great God! a creature cannot tell
How such a thing can be;
I only pray that I may dwell
That long, long time with thee.

Text Information
First Line: How long, sometimes, a day appears!
Author: Taylor
Meter: C. M.
Publication Date: 1873
Topic: Time and Eternity; Time and Eternity Compared
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