<font color='black' size='2' face='Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif'>These lines are from Isaac Watts's paraphrase of Psalm 90, "O God, Our Help in Ages Past," sometimes "Our God, Our Help in Ages Past" (depending on your hymnal):
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<div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">Our God, our help in ages past,<br>
Our hope for years to come,<br>
Our shelter from the stormy blast,<br>
And our eternal home.<br>
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Under the shadow of Thy throne<br>
Still may we dwell secure;<br>
Sufficient is Thine arm alone,<br>
And our defence is sure.<br>
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Before the hills in order stood,<br>
Or earth received her frame,<br>
>From everlasting Thou art God,<br>
To endless years the same.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">A thousand ages in Thy sight<br>
Are like an evening gone;<br>
Short as the watch that ends the night<br>
Before the rising sun.</div>
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<div style="margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; line-height: inherit;">Time, like an ever rolling stream,<br>
Bears all its sons away;<br>
They fly, forgotten, as a dream<br>
Dies at the opening day.</div>
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<font face="sans-serif">Be Thou our guard while trouble</font>s<font face="sans-serif"> last,</font><br>
<font face="sans-serif">And our eternal home.</font></div>
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From: Ab de Vos <foxyab@casema.nl><br>
To: urth <urth@lists.urth.net><br>
Sent: Tue, Apr 16, 2019 6:06 pm<br>
Subject: Re: (urth) Gene Wolfe (1931-2019)<br>
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<div>The text is a citation/paraphrase or strongly reminiscent of
Psalm 90:2-6</div>
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"A thousand ages in thy sight / Are like an evening gone; /
Short as the watch that ends the night / Before the rising
sun." The Shadow of the Torturer.</div>
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Goodnight, Gene.</div>
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Here is a link to Tor's obit: <a rel="noopener noreferrer" shape="rect" id="yiv5800591360LPlnk930875" target="_blank" href="https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/">https://www.tor.com/2019/04/15/gene-wolfe-in-memoriam-1931-2019/</a><span></span><br clear="none">
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The science fiction and fantasy community has lost a
beloved icon. We are extremely sad to report that
author and SFWA Grand Master Gene Wolfe passed away on
Sunday, April 14, 2019 after his long ...</div>
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