Why should we boast of time to come
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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.
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The present we should now redeem;This only is our own;The past, alas! is all a dream;The future is unknown.
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O think what vast concerns dependUpon a moment's space,When life and all its cares shall endIn vengeance or in grace.
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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.