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Text:Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,
Author:Thomas Scott
Tune:MALVERN
Composer:Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc.

377. Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,

1 Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun:
The longer wisdom you despise,
The harder is she to be won.

2 O hasten mercy to implore,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear thy season should be o’er,
Before this evening’s course be run.

3 Hasten, O sinner, to return,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear thy lamp should fail to burn,
Before the needful work is done.

4 Hasten, O sinner, to be blest,
And stay not for the morrow’s sun,
For fear the curse should thee arrest,
Before the morrow is begun.

Text Information
First Line: Hasten, O sinner, to be wise,
Author: Thomas Scott (1773)
Meter: L. M. No. 1
Language: English
Publication Date: 1908
Topic: First Sunday in Lent; First Sunday after Trinity; Christian Life and Hope: The Walk of Godliness: Call to Grace and Admonition to Holiness
Tune Information
Name: MALVERN
Composer: Lowell Mason, Mus. Doc. (1850)
Meter: L. M. No. 1
Key: E♭ Major



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