Classic Poem

1. Thou, Lord, hast been our sure defense, Our place of ease and rest,
As cannot be expressed.
In all times past, As cannot be expressed.
In all times past, yea, so long since As cannot be expressed.

2. Or there was made mountain or hill,
The earth or world abroad,
From age to age, and always still,
Forever thou art God.

3. The lasting of a thousand years,
What is it in thy sight?
As yesterday it doth appear
Or as a watch one night.

4. So soon as thou dost scatter them
Then is their life and trade
All as asleep, and like the grass
Whose beauty soon doth fade.

5. Which in the morning shines full bright,
But fadeth by and by,
And is cut down ere it be night
All withered, dead, and dry.