A single practice long sustained A soul to God endears: This must be thine--to weigh the thought Of the Eternal Years. 16 He practises all virtue well, Who his own Cross reveres, And lives in the familiar thought Of the Eternal Years. [37] "It appears that Newman thinks so highly of that poem ["The Eternal Years"] that he asked to have it sung to him during his recent illness, and remarked: '"Lead, Kindly Light" are the words of one seeking the truth. "The Eternal Years" are those of one who has found it.'"--May, 1889, Grant Duff's _Notes from a Diary_. * * * * * Transcriber's Notes: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. All footnotes and endnotes have been reorganized into a single system of sequentially numbered footnotes. Every effort has been made to replicate the text as faithfully as possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other inconsistencies. Obvious punctuation errors and minor printer errors repaired. Both Eleison and EleÔson appear in text, left as originally printed.