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Audio Recording:

1 As down the stream of time I glide,
The greatest tho’t that comes to me;
Is not of honors, wealth, nor pride,
But what about eternity.

Chorus:
Eternity, (Eternity),
Eternity, (Eternity);
O, soul what of eternity?
Will you, at home, in heaven be thro’out a long eternity?

2 When, in the glory of the night,
The brilliant moon and stars I see;
I rise above them in my flight
And think about eternity. [Chorus]

3 And when I hear the church bells toll
Their sad and mournful melody,
This is my tho’t, another soul
Has reached the great eternity. [Chorus]

4 I want to live each fleeting day
As tho’ it were my last to be;
Then when from earth I pass away,
With God I’ll spend eternity.