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  1. 1Young people all, attention give,
  2. While I address you in God's name;
  3. You who in sin and folly live,
  4. Come hear the counsel of a friend.
  5. I've sought for bliss in glittering toys,
  6. And ranged the luring scenes of vice;
  7. But never knew substantial joys,
  8. Until I heard my Savior's voice.
  9. 2He spake at once my sins forgiven,
  10. And washed my load of guilt away;
  11. He gave me glory, peace, and heaven,
  12. And thus I found the heavenly way.
  13. And now with trembling sense I view
  14. The billows roll beneath your feet;
  15. For death eternal waits for you,
  16. Who slight the force of gospel truth.
  17. 3Youth, like the spring, will soon be gone
  18. By fleeting time or conquering death,
  19. Your morning sun may set at noon,
  20. And leave you ever in the dark.
  21. Your sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks
  22. Must wither like the blasted rose;
  23. The coffin, earth, and winding sheet
  24. Will soon your active limbs enclose.
  25. 4Ye heedless ones that wildly stroll,
  26. The grave will soon become your bed,
  27. Where silence reigns, and vapors roll
  28. In solemn darkness round your head.
  29. Your friends will pass the lonesome place,
  30. And with a sigh move slow along;
  31. Still gazing on the spires of grass
  32. With which your graves are overgrown.
  33. 5Your souls will land in darker realms,
  34. Where vengeance reigns and billows roar,
  35. And roll amid the burning flames,
  36. When thousand thousand years are o'er.
  37. Sunk in the shades of endless night,
  38. To groan and howl in endless pain,
  39. And never more behold the light,
  40. And never, never rise again.
  41. 6Ye blooming youth, this is the state
  42. Of all who do free grace refuse;
  43. And soon with you 'twill be too late
  44. The way of life and Christ to choose.
  45. Come, lay your carnal weapons by,
  46. No longer fight against your God
  47. But with the gospel now comply
  48. And heaven shall be your great reward.

About this music

OLD 100TH — Louis Bourgeois. Setting: Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter, 1561.. The score is from the Open Hymnal Project, copied from ccel from Sternhold and Hopkins' Psalter 1561. Words: "Hymnal and Canticles of the Protestant Episcopal Church", 1875, hymn 405.; music and setting are in the public domain. The words above are from the hymnal cited on the Young people all, attention give page.

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