For long years standing in the light,
Successes coming day and night,
I lived those precious golden days
Of all the winning and the praise.
Now suddenly the shock: I’m old!
The “three-score years and ten” have rolled
Away, and twenty more have passed
Like fleeting shadows, lightning fast!
The flying decades came and went;
There was no way to circumvent
Their taking loved ones one by one
Whose race of life on earth was run.
Oh what a loneliness I feel
As day by day I try to steel
Myself to face the truth and see
That I am near Eternity!
What’s left of all the strain and strife
That marks this business of life?
The priceless hope, O God, that YOU,
Who planted in my heart that view
Of Everlasting Life with YOU,
Will show me that it’s really true –
That what you taught me here below,
And what I now believe, I’ll KNOW!!
— written by James Burton Coffman (upon the approach of his 90 birthday)
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