Old Melodies

How prone are professors to rest on their lees

No. 1155
Metre 11s.
Tune REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE.
Words Anon.
Music Arranged.
Key C major
Singing key B♭ major
Time 3/4
6 stanzas

Words

How prone are professors to rest on their lees,To study their pleasure, their profit, and ease!Though God says, "Arise, and escape for thy life,And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife,Remember Lot's wife."

Awake from thy slumbers, the warning believe;'T is Jesus that calls you, the message receive;While dangers are pending, escape for thy life!And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife.

The first bold apostate will tempt you to stayAnd tell you that lions are found in the way;He means to deceive you, escape for thy life!And not look behind thee; remember Lot's wife.

How many poor souls has the tempter beguiled!With specious temptations how many defiled!O be not deluded, escape for thy life!And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife.

The ways of religion true pleasure afford,No pleasures can equal the joys of the Lord;Forsake then the world and escape for thy life,And look not behind thee; remember Lot's wife.

But if you determine the call to refuse,And venture the way of destruction to choose,For hell, you will part with the blessings of life,And then, if not now, you 'll remember Lot's wife.

About this hymn

As printed As printed: running head «MISCELLANEOUS—OLD MELODIES.»; hymn number «1155» (large), tune name «REMEMBER LOT'S WIFE. 11s.» centred over the music (condensed capitals and small capitals), «ARRANGED.» at the right (capitals and small capitals); no reference line. Stanza 1 is interlinear: system 1 carries two lines in a brace with «1.» before it — «How prone are pro-fess-ors to rest on their lees, To stud-y their pleasure, their» and «Though God says, " Arise, and es-cape for thy life, And (omit ) . . . . . . . .»; system 2 carries «prof-it, and ease!» (line 1) over a row of dots, a closing brace, then «look not behind thee; re-mem-ber Lot's wife, Re-member Lot's wife."» (the continuation of line 2, sung in the second ending). Lines 1–2 of the stanza are sung with the first ending, lines 3–4 after the repeat with the second ending, which ends with the tag «Remember Lot's wife.»; the closing quotation mark stands after the tag, so stanza 1 is given here with the tag as its fifth line. No period is printed in «(omit )» (see `uncertainties.md`); the direction is not part of the text. Stanzas 2–6 follow as text in two columns (2, 3 and the first two lines of 4 left; the rest of 4, then 5 and 6 right), numbered «2»–«6» without a full stop (numbered «2.»–«6.» here like stanza 1); each line of 11 syllables is one line here (the print turns the long ones over: «be-/lieve;», «thy/life!», «Lot's/wife.», «be-/guiled!», «of/life,»). «Anon.» in italics after stanza 6. The print sets a thin space before «;» and «!» and inside the opening quotation mark («" Arise»); they are closed up here; curly quotes and apostrophes are written straight. «'T is» and «you 'll» are set with a word space before the apostrophe and kept so (measured: 11 px gap in «you 'll», the word space of that line is 12 px). Spelling, punctuation and capitals are the print's, including «And not look behind thee» in stanza 3 (the other stanzas have «And look not»).