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Text:O 'tis a lovely thing for youth
Author:Isaac Watts

HXV. O 'tis a lovely thing for youth

O ‘tis a lovely thing for youth
To walk betimes in wisdom’s way;
To fear a lie, to speak the truth,
That we may trust to all they say!

But liars we can never trust,
Though they should speak the thing that’s true;
And he that does one fault at first,
And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Have we not known, nor heard, nor read
How God abhors deceit and wrong?
How Ananias was struck dead,
Caught with a lie upon his tongue?

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So did his wife Sapphira die,
When she came in, and grew so bold
As to confirm that wicked lie,
Which just before her husband told.

The Lord delights in them that speak
The words of truth; but every liar
Must have his portion in the lake
That burns with brimstone and with fire.

Then let me always watch my lips,
Lest I be struck to death and hell,
Since God a book of reckoning keeps
For every lie that children tell.

Text Information
First Line: O 'tis a lovely thing for youth
Title: O 'tis a lovely thing for youth
Author: Isaac Watts (1715)
Meter: 8,8,8,8
Language: English
Publication Date: 1866
Notes: Public Domain.
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