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TEACH ME TO NUMBER MY DAYS', by                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And courage and worship and love
Subject(s): Time; Transience; Conduct Of Life


Teach me to number my days!
Lead me to count them aright.
In the heavenly reckoning ways.
As they stand in the angels' keen sight.

I number them ''" year upon year;
They number them ''" act upon act.
I figure by calendars drear;
They figure by motive and fact.

I am old as the decades go by,
I am young in wisdom and grace;
Time's heralds remorselessly fly.
My soul has a cowardly pace.

I would know the arithmetic law
That reckons the worth of a thought,
And shows how the ages draw
On the work a moment has wrought.

Oh, teach me to number my days,
As the clerks record them above.
By purpose and kindness and praise.
And courage and worship and love!





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