Hymn 2:164 [Why Should This Earth Delight Us So?]

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Title:     Hymn 2:164 [Why Should This Earth Delight Us So?]
Author: Isaac Watts [More Titles by Watts]

The end of the world.

Why should this earth delight us so?
Why should we fix our eyes
On these low grounds where sorrows grow,
And every pleasure dies?

While time his sharpest teeth prepares
Our comforts to devour,
There is a land above the stars,
And joys above his power.

Nature shall be dissolv'd and die,
The sun must end his race,
The earth and sea for ever fly
Before my Saviour's face.

When will that glorious morning rise!
When the last trumpet sound,
And call the nations to the skies
From underneath the ground?

[The end]
Isaac Watts's poem: Hymn 2:164 [Why Should This Earth Delight Us So?]

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