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SPIRITUAL MAGAZINE NO. 15
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| 1. |
| O, children, would you cherish |
| A worthy lasting love? |
| The good that does not perish |
| Is only found above. |
| Seek God, the highest goal, |
| With spirit and with soul, |
| Then you will find a rapture |
| The heart cannot control. |
| 2. |
| Is indolence a pleasure? |
| Does worldliness allure? |
| Then know that short the measure, |
| For life is never sure, |
| And through eternity, |
| The soul will ever be, |
| The time for pardon wasted, |
| In woful misery. |
| 3. |
| Saint Luke has plainly written |
| About a man of pride — |
| With riches was he smitten, |
| And worldliness beside — |
- ↑ In Governor Pennypacker's “Historical and Biographical Sketches,” p. 148 ff, the following translation is given. In the translation the Governor says: “The effort has been made to preserve the thought, versification, metre and rhyme — a somewhat difficult task.” The task has been so artfully performed that it seemed best to give it in this interesting form.
