by John Newton, See! Another Year Is Gone!
“ Mercy hitherto has spared, But have mercies been improved? Let us ask, am I prepared Should I be this year removed? Some we now no longer see, Who their mortal race have run; Seemed as fair for life as we, When the former year begun; Some, but who God only knows, Who are here assembled now, Ere the present year shall close, To the stroke of death must bow. Life a field of battle is, Thousands fall within our view ”
