Lord, let me know my term of days - Handel, George Frideric

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⌛ Period → Baroque ◈ Genre / Form → Hymns ♬ Voicing → SATB ¶ Language → English

Parts 4

Instruments Organ

Pages 3

CPDL # 86424

Editor Douglas Walczak

Posted 2025-08-19

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1. Lord, let me know my term of days, how soon my Life will end The num'rous Train of ills disclose which this frail State attend. 2. My Life, thou know'st is but a Span, a Cypher sums my Years And ev'ry Man in best Estate but Vanity appears. 3. Man, like a Shadow, vainly walks, with fruitless Cares oppress'd ; He heaps up Wealth, but cannot tell by whom 'twill be possess'd. 4. Why then should I on worthless Toys with anxious Care attend? On thee alone my steadfast Hope shall ever. Lord, depend.