1387 And Am I Only Born to Die?
1
And am I only born to die?
And must I suddenly comply
With nature’s stern decree?
What after death for me remains?
Celestial joys, or hellish pains,
To all eternity?
2
How then ought I on earth to live,
While God prolongs the kind reprieve
And props the house of clay?
My sole concern, my single care,
To watch, and tremble, and prepare
Against the fatal day.
3
No room for mirth or trifling here,
For worldly hope, or worldly fear,
If life so soon is gone:
If now the Judge is at the door,
And all mankind must stand before
The inexorable throne!
4
No matter which my thoughts employ,
A moment’s misery, or joy;
But O! when both shall end,
Where shall I find my destined place?
Shall I my everlasting days
With fiends, or angels spend?
5
Nothing is worth a thought beneath
But how I may escape the death
That never, never dies;
How make mine own election sure,
And, when I fail on earth, secure
A mansion in the skies.
6
Jesus, vouchsafe a pitying ray,
Be Thou my guide, be Thou my way
To glorious happiness;
Ah, write the pardon on my heart,
And whensoe’er I hence depart,
Let me depart in peace.

Temukan kidung nyanyian lainnya dari EN (English Hymns)

1388 And Let This Feeble Body Fail
1389 All Men Living Are but Mortal
1390 And Is This Life Prolonged to Me?
1391 Eternity! Eternity!
1392 Thou Who Roll’st the Year Around
1393 The Man Who Once Has Found Abode
1394 My God in Whom I Trust
1395 Now Let Us Come Before Him
1396 O That I Knew the Secret Place
1397 Still Will We Trust
1398 In Grief and Fear, to Thee, O Lord
1399 They Have Gone to the Land
1400 As the Bird Flies Home
1401 The Day Is Past and Over
1402 Lord, When We Have Not Any Light
1403 Now Rest Beneath Night’s Shadow
1404 Now That the Daylight Dies Away
1405 Now the Day Is Over
1406 Softly the Silent Night
1407 St. Patrick’s Breastplate
1408 The Shadows of the Evening Hours
1409 To Thee Before the Close of Day
1410 Before the Ending of the Day
1411 The Day Is Past and Gone
1412 Holy Father, Bless Us