Hymns, Selected and Original ‎#242

242. Eternity is just at hand!

1 Eternity is just at hand!--
And shall I waste my ebbing sand;
And careless view departing day,
And throw my inch of time away?

2 But an eternity there is
Of endless wo, or endless bliss;
And swift as time fulfils its round,
We to eternity are bound.

3 What countless millions of mankind
Have left this fleeting world behind!
They're gone! but where?--ah, pause and see,
Gone to a long eternity.

4 Sinner! canst thou for ever dwell
In all the fiery deeps of hell;
And is death nothing, then, to thee;
Death, and a dread eternity?

Text Information

• First Line: Eternity is just at hand!
• Meter: L. M.
• Publication Date: 1828
• Topic: Eternity; Holy Spirit: The certaintiy of death and Judgment

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