Why do we waste on trifling cares
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Why do we waste on trifling caresThat life which God's compassion spares,While in the various range of thought,The one thing needful is forgot?
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Shall God invite us from above?Shall Jesus urge his dying love?Shall troubled conscience give us pain?And all these pleas unite in vain?
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Not so our eyes will always viewThose objects which we now pursue;Not so will heaven and hell appear,When death's decisive hour is near.
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Almighty God, thy grace impart;Fix deep conviction on each heart;Nor let us waste on trifling caresThat life which thy compassion spares.