No solid pleasure on their worshipper;

Or in the search of causes that are known

And guided by Omnipotence alone?

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A height his finite reason cannot reach,

And all his boasted learning fails to teach?

While the bewildering thought overwhelms his brain,

Death comes to prove his speculations vain!

Is he deserving of a better doom

Who will not raise a hope beyond the tomb?

Who, quite enamoured with his fallen state,

Clings to the world and leaves the rest to fate;

Prefers corruption to his Maker's smile,

"And shuns the light because his deeds are vile?"

The man who feels the value of his soul,

Presses unwearied towards a higher goal;

Leaving this earth, he seeks a brighter prize,

And claims a crown immortal in the skies.

The child of pleasure may despise his aim,

And heap reproach upon the Christian's name,

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