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Quotes from Hymns and Spiritual Songs — Isaac Watts

1674–1748 England

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And while the lamp holds out to burn,
The vilest sinner may return.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

The tall, the wise, the reverend head
Must lie as low as ours.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

There is a land of pure delight,
Where saints immortal reign;
Infinite day excludes the night,
And pleasures banish pain.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

When I can read my title clear
To mansions in the skies,
I'll bid farewell to every fear,
And wipe my weeping eyes.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

Fly, like a youthful hart or roe,
Over the hills where spices grow.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

Hark! from the tombs a doleful sound.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

I write not for your farthing, but to try
How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

So, when a raging fever burns,
We shift from side to side by turns;
And 't is a poor relief we gain
To change the place, but keep the pain.

Attributed Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1773)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Isaac Watts (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.