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AGAINST YIELDING TO TEMPTATION.

My love, you have met with a trial to-day

Which I hoped to have seen you oppose;

But alas, in a moment your temper gave way,

And the pride of your bosom arose.

I saw the temptation, and trembled for fear

Your good resolutions should fall;

And soon, by your eye and your color, my dear,

I found you had broken them all.

Oh, why did you suffer this troublesome sin

To rise in your bosom again?

And when you perceived it already within,

Oh, why did you let it remain?

As soon as temptation is put in your way,

And passion is ready to start,

’Tis then you must try to subdue it, and pray

For courage to bid it depart.

But now you can only with sorrow implore

That Jesus would pardon your sin,

Would help you to watch for your enemy more,

And put a new temper within.

Jane Taylor.