Who knows how near my end may be?

Time speeds away, and death comes on

How swiftly, ah! how suddenly

May death be here, and life be gone!

My God, for Jesus’ sake I pray

Thy peace may bless my dying day

The world that smiled when morn was come

May change for me ere close of eve

So long as earth is still my home

In peril of my death I live

My God, for Jesus’ sake I pray

Thy peace may bless my dying day

Teach me to ponder oft my end

And ere the hour of death appears

To cast my soul on Christ her friend

Nor spare repentant cries and tears

My God, for Jesus’ sake I pray

Thy peace may bless my dying day

And let me now so order all

That ever ready I may be

To say with joy, whate’er befall

Lord, do Thou as Thou wilt with me

My God, for Jesus’ sake I pray

Thy peace may bless my dying day

O Father, cover all my sins

With Jesus’ merits, who alone

The pardon that I covet wins

And makes His long sought rest our own

My God, for Jesus’ sake I pray

Thy peace may bless my dying day

And thus I live in God at peace

And die without a thought or fear

Content to take what God decrees

For through His Son my faith is clear

His grace shall be in death my stay

And peace shall bless my dying day