William Gifford - How blest is he who ne'er consents - текст песни (слова)

How blest is he who ne'er consents
 By ill advice to walk:
 Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits
 Where men profanely talk. 
 
 But makes the perfect law of God
 His business and delight;
 Devoutly reads therein by day,
 And meditates by night. 
 
 Like some fair tree which, fed by streams,
 With timely fruit does bend;
 He still shall flourish, and success
 All his designs attend. 
 
 For God approves the just man's ways,
 To happiness they tend:
 But sinners, and the paths they tread,
 Shall both in ruin end.