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Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
John Newton
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John Newton
Age: 82 †
Born: 1725
Born: July 24
Died: 1807
Died: December 21
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The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.
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I am still in the land of the dying I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
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