Hymns of the Early Church / being translations from the poetry of the Latin church, arranged in the order of the Christian year

by John Brownlie

III

Shall not man, who earthward tendeth,

Look to God, who mercy sendeth?

’Twere a task most unbefitting,

God o’er man in judgment sitting—

Yet should God in judgment speak,

Where shall man an answer seek?

IV

As the shadow quickly flying,

Faint our life and sure our dying;