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ISAAC WATTS
English minister
(1674 - 1748)
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Our life contains a thousand springs,
  And dies if one be gone.
    Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
      Should keep in tune so long.
      - Hymns and Spiritual Songs
         (bk. II, hymn XIX) [Life]

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.
      - Hymns and Spiritual Songs--Funeral Thoughts
         (bk. II, vol. IX, hymn 63)
        [Death : Graves : Sound]

How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun,
  How lovely and joyful the course that he run!
    Though he rose in a mist when his race he begun,
      And there followed some droppings of rain:
        But now the fair traveller's come to the west,
          His rays are all gold, and his beauties are best;
            He paints the skies gay as he sinks to his rest,
              And foretells a bright rising again.
      - Moral Songs--A Summer Evening [Sunset]

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain,
  "You have waked me too soon, I must slumber again."
    As the door on its hinges, so he on his bed,
      Turns his sides and his shoulders and his heavy head.
        "A little more sleep, and a little more slumber;"
          Thus he wastes half his days, and his hours without number,
            And when he gets up, he sits folding his hands,
              Or walks about sauntering, or trifling he stands.
      - Moral Songs--The Sluggard (l. 1)
        [Idleness : Sleep]

What heavy guilt upon him lies!
  How cursed is his name!
    The ravens shall pick out his eyes,
      And eagles eat the same.
      - Obedience [Punishment]

Whene'er I take my walks abroad.
  How many poor I see!
      - Praise for Mercies [Poverty]

How glad the heathens would have been,
  That worship idols, wood and stone,
    If they the book God had seen.
      - Praise for the Gospel [Scripture]

Let not soft slumber close your eyes,
  Before you've collected thrice
    The train of action through the day!
      Where have my feet chose out their way?
        What have I learnt, where'er I've been,
          From all I've heard, from all I've seen?
            What have I more that's worth the knowing?
              What have I done that's worth the doing?
                What have I sought that I should shun?
                  What duty have I left undone,
                    Or into what new follies run?
                      These self-inquiries are the road
                        That lead to virtue and to God.
      - Self Examination [Self-examination]

And he that does one fault at first,
  And lies to hide it, makes it two.
      - Song XV [Lying]

When I can read my title clear
  To mansions in the skies,
    I'll bid farewell to every fear,
      And wipe my weeping eyes.
      - Songs and Hymns (bk. II, no. 65)
        [Religion]

Fairest of all the lights above,
  Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres,
    And with unwearied swiftness move,
      To form the circles of our years.
      - Sun, Moon and Stars, Praise Ye the Lord
        [Sun]

How fair is the Rose! what a beautiful flower.
  The glory of April and May!
    But the leaves are beginning to fade in an hour,
      And they wither and die in a day.
        Yet the Rose has one powerful virtue to boast,
          Above all the flowers of the field;
            When its leaves are all dead, and fine colours are lost,
              Still how sweet a perfume it will yield!
      - The Rose [Roses]


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