Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow

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Why should we boast of time to come

Author: M. Wilkes
Published in 31 hymnals

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1 Why should we boast of time to come,
Though but a single day?
This hour may fix our final doom,
Though strong, and young, and gay.

2 The present we should now redeem;
This only is our own;
The past, alas! is all a dream;
The future is unknown.

3 O think what vast concerns depend
Upon a moment's space,
When life and all its cares shall end
In vengeance or in grace.

4 O for that power which melts the heart,
And lifts the soul on high!
Where sin and grief and death depart,
And pleasures never die.

Source: The Seventh-Day Adventist Hymn and Tune Book: for use in divine worship #401

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Author: M. Wilkes

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First Line:	Why should we boast of time to come
Title:	Boast Not Thyself of Tomorrow
Author:	M. Wilkes
Meter:	8.6.8.6
Language:	English
Copyright:	Public Domain

Proverbs 27:1
(hymns)

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PHUVAH

DUNDEE (Ravenscroft)

DUNDEE first appeared in the 1615 edition of the Scottish Psalter published in Edinburgh by Andro Hart. Called a "French" tune (thus it also goes by the name of FRENCH), DUNDEE was one of that hymnal's twelve "common tunes"; that is, it was not associated with a specific psalm. In the Psalter Hymnal…

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NAOMI (Nägeli)

NAOMI was a melody that Lowell Mason (PHH 96) brought to the United States from Europe and arranged as a hymn tune; the arrangement was first published in the periodical Occasional Psalm and Hymn Tunes (1836). Some scholars have attributed the original melody to Johann G. Nageli (PHH 315), but there…

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