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Text:How Happy is the Youth
Tune:BALERMA

398. How Happy is the Youth

1 How happy is the youth who hears
Instruction's warning voice,
And who celestial wisdom makes
His early, only choice.

2 For she has treasure greater far
Than east or west unfold;
And her rewards more precious are
Than all their stores of gold.

3 She guides the young with innocence
In pleasure's path to tread;
A crown of glory she bestows
Upon the hoary head.

4 According as her labors rise,
So her rewards increase;
Her ways are ways of pleasantness,
And all her paths are peace.

Text Information
First Line: How happy is the youth who hears
Title: How Happy is the Youth
Language: English
Publication Date: 1890
Tune Information
Name: BALERMA
Meter: C. M.
Key: B♭ Major



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