Classic Poem

1. Whilst in this world I stay, some hopes have I That I shall reign in
2. We are but babes of yesterday, And we are sons and
heaven eternally; But when my time is past, and- I am gone,
daughters of mortality. From dust we came, to dust we must again,
There's no hope left for me to build upon. Lord, grant me full assurance
And to the grave with speed we fly amain. Lord, let the thoughts of death pos-
whilst that I Am here, so willing I shall be to die.
sess my heart, That so thee and my soul may never part.

3. How brutish, oh, senseless are(all)those,
Who to the world do so themselves dispose,
As if there were no God to serve, no death
That's coming to deprive them of their breath?
Lord, help me so to live, that I may be
Never forgetful of my death or thee.

4. How loth, how backward are we all to leave
This transitory world? Let death bereave
Us of those mundane things, yet if we still
Resolve to live and die to Christ, what ill
Can happen to us? Lord, before I die
Let me a better kingdom far espy.