Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day

My days and weeks, and months and years

Author: Thomas Greene (1780)
Published in 128 hymnals

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1 My days, my weeks, my months, my years,
Fly rapid as the whirling spheres
Around the steady pole:
Time, like the tide, its motion keeps,
Till I must launch through boundless deeps,
Where endless ages roll.

2 The grave is near the cradle seen:
The moments swiftly pass between,
And whisper as they fly:
Unthinking man, remember this,
Though fond of sublunary bliss,
Thou soon must gasp and die.

3 My soul, attend the solemn call:
Thine earthly tent must quickly fall,
And thou must take thy flight
Beyond the vast expansive blue,
To sing and love as angels do,
Or sink in endless night.

Source: The Voice of Praise: a collection of hymns for the use of the Methodist Church #904

Author: Thomas Greene

Greene, Thomas, of Ware, was for some time a member of the Congregational body in that town. In 1778 a minority of the members, of Arian principles, having obtained the lease of the chapel, the majority seceded and built themselves the "Old Independent Chapel." Mr. Greene was one of these seceders (Miller's Singers & Songs, 1869, p. 314). His Hymns and Poems on Various Subjects, chiefly Sacred, were published in 1780 (2nd ed., 1797). From this work the hymn "It is the Lord, enthroned in light" (Resignation), is taken. In Bickersteth's Christian Psalmody, 1833, it begins, "It is the Lord, my covenant God." In modern collections it is found in both forms. Another hymn from the same work is "The more my conduct I survey " (Trusting in Jesus),… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: My days and weeks, and months and years
Title: Soliloquy on the Eve of New Year's Day
Author: Thomas Greene (1780)
Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6
Source: Poems on Various Subjects, Chiefly Sacred, by the Late Mr. Thomas Greene, of Ware, Hertfordshire. London: H. Goldney. 1780. 381 pp.
Language: English
Notes: Research by Marion J. Hatchett, 2003. (A Companion to the New Harp of Columbia, p. 148.) claims "Julian (1907) spells his last name "Greene", but the book of his poems spells it correctly: "Green" ". However the Library of Congress Name Authority and WorldCat records spell the name "Greene."
Copyright: Public Domain

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The Harp #44

The Knoxville Harmony of Music Made Easy #d51

The Manual of the Sacred Choir #d31

The More Perfect Gospel Hymnal, a Revision of the Cross and Resurrection in Song #d147

The New Harp of Columbia #d57

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The Primitive Baptist Hymnal #373

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The Religious Songster #13

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The Revivalist #160

The Sacred Harp #266

The Sacred Harp. New ed. #d50

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The Sacred Lyre #159

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The Saint's Harp #204

The Social Harp #43

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The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion (New ed. thoroughly rev. and much enl.) #98

The Southern Harmony, and Musical Companion. New ed. #d79

The Southern Psalmist #d518

The Southern Psalmist. New ed. #d541

The Spiritual Songster. lst ed. #d76

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The Sweet Singer of Israel #83

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The Voice of Praise #904

The Western Harp #d123

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The Zion Songster #121

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The Zion Songster #121

Zion's Harp #d85

Zion's Hymns, for the Use of the Original Free-Will Baptist Church of North Carolina #d168

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Zion's Songster #12

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