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Life is the time to serve the Lord



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Life is the time to serve the Lord,
  The time t' insure the great reward;
 And while the lamp holds out to burn,
  The vilest sinner may return.
 
 [Life is the hour that God has giv'n
  To 'scape from hell and fly to heav'n;
 The day of grace, and mortals may
  Secure the blessings of the day.]
 
 The living know that they must die,
  But all the dead forgotten lie;
 Their mem'ry and their sense is gone,
  Alike unknowing and unknown.
 
 [Their hatred and their love is lost,
  Their envy buried in the dust;
 They have no share in all that's done
  Beneath the circuit of the sun.]
 
 Then what my thoughts design to do,
  My hands, with all your might pursue;
 Since no device nor work is found,
  Nor faith, nor hope, beneath the ground.
 
 There are no acts of pardon passed
  In the cold grave, to which we haste;
 But darkness, death, and long despair,
  Reign in eternal silence there.   
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