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<h2>THE HOUR-GLASS</h2>
<p align="center"><h3>&#8220;His days shall be an hundred and twenty years.&#8221; Genesis 6:3</h3></p>
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<td><img src="./hymns/hymns_img/img_a_d_adams_jq.jpg" alt="John Quincy Adams (1767-1848)" width="133.333333333333" height="200"></td>
<td><em>Words:</em> <a href="./hymns/hymns_bio/bio_a_d_adams_jq.html" target="_blank">John Quincy Adams</a>; he wrote this hymn for the 200th anniversary of the First Congregational Church in Quincy, Massachusetts, September 29, 1839.
<p><em>Music:</em> &#8220;Gerald,&#8221; Louis Spohr, 1834 </p><p><table><tr><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_mid/mid_g_gerald.mid" target = "_blank"><img border=0 src="./hymns/hymns_img/notes.gif"><br><b>Play MIDI</b></a></td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td><a href="./hymns/hymns_html/score_info.html" target = "_blank"><b>Link to obtain<br>musical score info</b></a></td></tr></table></p>
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<p>Alas! how swift the moments fly!<br>
How flash the years along!<br>
Scarce here, yet gone already by,<br>
The burden of a song.<br>
See childhood, youth, and manhood pass,<br>
And age, with furrowed brow;<br>
Time was&#8212;Time shall be&#8212;drain the glass&#8212;<br>
But where in Time is now?</p>
<p>Time is the measure but of change;<br>
No present hour is found;<br>
The past, the future, fill the range<br>
Of Time&#8217;s unceasing round.<br>
Where, then is now? In realms above,<br>
With God&#8217;s atoning Lamb<br>
In regions of eternal love,<br>
Where sits enthroned I AM.</p>
<p>Then pilgrim, let thy joys and tears<br>
On Time no longer lean;<br>
But hence forth all thy hopes and fears<br>
From earth&#8217;s affections wean:<br>
To God let votive accents rise;<br>
With truth, with virtue, live;<br>
So all the bliss that Time denies<br>
Eternity shall give.</p>
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