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Eternity L.M.

By Steve Brett

Key
B♭ major
Type
Plain tune
Time signature
3
4
Composed
2017
Text
Anne Steele, 1760

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Text

Eternity is just at hand;
And shall I waste my ebbing sand?
And careless view departing day,
And throw my inch of time away.

Eternity, tremendous sound!
To guilty souls, a dreadful wound;
But oh, if Christ and heav'n be mine,
How sweet the accents! How divine!