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OLNEY HYMNS.
BOOK II.
ON OCCASIONAL SUBJECTS.
I. SEASONS.
II. ORDINANCES.
III. PROVIDENCES.
IV. CREATION.
I. SEASONS.
NEW-YEAR S HYMNS.
1.
Time how Swift.
1 WHILE with ceaseless course the sun
Hasted through the former year,
Many souls their race have run,
Never more to meet us here :
Fix d in an eternal state,
They have done with all below ;
We a little longer wait,
But how little none can know.
2 As the winged arrow flies,
Speedily the mark to find ;
As the lightning from the skies
Darts, and leaves no trace behind ;
Swiftly thus our fleeting days
Bear us down life s rapid stream ;
Upwards, Lord, our spirits raise,
All below is but a dream.
