Eccclesiastes 12
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Eccles 12:1
1In life’s gay morn, when sprightly youth
with vital ardour glows,
And shines in all the fairest charms
which beauty can disclose;
2 Deep on thy soul, before its pow’rs
are yet by vice enslav’d,
Be thy Creator’s glorious name
and character engrav’d.
3 For soon the shades of grief shall cloud
the sunshine of thy days;
And cares, and toils, in endless round,
encompass all thy ways.
4 Soon shall thy heart the woes of age
in mournful groans deplore,
And sadly muse on former joys,
that now return no more.
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First published by the Church of Scotland in 1781.
