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p. 18

UNCERTAINTY OF LIFE.

I IN the burying place may see
  Graves shorter there than I;
From death's arrest no age is free
  Young children, too, may die.

My God, may such an awful sight
  Awakening be to me!
O that by early grace I might
  For death prepared be!


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