| Life at best is very brief,
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| Like the falling of a leaf,
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| Like the binding of a sheath,
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| Be in time.
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| Fleeting days are telling fast,
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| That the die will soon be cast,
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| And the fatal line be passed,
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| Be in time.
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| Fairest flowers soon decay,
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| Youth and beauty pass away,
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| Oh, you have not long to stay,
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| Be in time.
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| While God’s spirit bids you come,
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| Sinners do not longer roam
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| Lest you seal your hopeless doom (original line)
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| Lest you lose your way back home (new line)
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| Be in time, won’t you be in time.
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| Lord I want to live for you,
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| Give all I can give for you,
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| Help me, Jesus, to make
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| The most of my time.
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| Fleeting days are telling fast,
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| That the die will soon be cast,
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| And the fatal line be passed,
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| Be in time.
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| Lord, help me be in time. |