| Alfred H. Miles, ed. The Sacred Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | | I. Swiftness of Time | | By Edward Caswell (1814–1878) |
| | | DAYS and moments quickly flying, | |
| Blend the living with the dead; | |
| Soon will you and I be lying | |
| Each within our narrow bed. | |
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| Soon our souls, to God who gave them, | 5 |
| Will have sped their rapid flight;— | |
| Able now by grace to save them, | |
| O, that while we can we might! | |
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| Jesu, infinite Redeemer, | |
| Maker of this mighty frame! | 10 |
| Teach, O teach us to remember | |
| What we are, and whence we came; | |
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| Whence we came, and whither wending, | |
| Soon we must through darkness go, | |
| To inherit bliss unending, | 15 |
| Or eternity of woe. | | | | |
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