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Though I’m now in younger days Good resolutions

Isaac Watts printed it in 1715 in Divine Songs for Children, Moral Songs, no. 6.

WRITTEN BY

Isaac Watts 1674–1748

PRINTED

1715 Divine Songs for Children · no. 6

METRE

7.8.7.8 10 stanzas

WRITTEN ON

A subject no verse printed above it

The hymn, and the Scripture in it

All 10 stanzas as Watts printed them, with the verses their lines echo beside them. Point at a line to join it to its verse; click to read the passage.

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The stanzas at the centre; around them, every book its heading and its echoes come from, Old Testament on the left and New on the right. Choose a stanza or a book.

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STANZA I

Though I’m now in younger days

Though I’m now in younger days,

Nor can tell what shall befall me,

I’ll prepare for every place

Where my growing age shall call me.

Its place in the book

Moral Songs holds these hymns in this order: 8 hymns. This is number 6. Point at a tick to see the hymn; click it to open that hymn.

NO. 6 · ISAAC WATTS · THIS HYMN Though I’m now in younger days

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