The stars shine over the mountains,

the stars shine over the sea.

The stars look up to the mighty God,

the stars look down on me;

The stars shall last for a million years,

a million years and a day.

But God and I will live and love

when the stars have passed away.

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

 

The grass withers,

the flowers fade . . .

but the word of our God

will stand forever.

 

Almighty and everlasting God, who hast set thine eternity in our hearts and awakened within us desires which the world cannot satisfy: lift our eyes, we pray to thee, about the narrow horizons of this present world, that we may behold the things eternal in the heaven, wherein is laid up for us an inheritance that fadeth not away; through Jesus Christ our Lord.

G W Briggs, The Prayer Manual