Years in Thy Sight

For a thousand years in Thy sight Are but as yesterday when it is past. And as a watch in the night. —Psalm 90:4 Years to a thousand! that’s ages and ages Crowded with history for pages and pages. Ceaseless rise, reign and ruin of empires past; Dynasties, philosophies—they never last! Countless events elude historian’s pen; Time, limit of history, moves on, and then ’Tis all to God as nothing, as time all gone; Sown, grown, mown, blown, gone: like life-span of the lawn. “Yesterday...