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TIME

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A minute, – how soon it is flown!

And yet, how important it is!

God calls every moment His own, —

For all our existence is His:

And tho’ we may waste many moments each day,

He notices each that we squander away.


We should not a minute despise,

Although it so quickly is o’er;

We know that it rapidly flies,

And therefore should prize it the more.

Another, indeed, may appear in its stead;

But that precious minute, for ever, is fled.


’Tis easy to squander our years

In idleness, folly, and strife;

But, oh! no repentance nor tears

Can bring back one moment of life.

Then wisely improve all the time as it goes,

And life will be happy, and peaceful the close.


Devotional Poetry for the Children

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