LYRICS
| Meter: | 8 6 8 6 (C.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Isaac Watts
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| | Dates: | 1707
| | Bible Refs: | 1 Co 15:56
| Hymns and Spiritual Songs Vol 2
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| 1. Sin has a thousand treach'rous arts
To practise on the mind;
With flatt'ring looks she tempts our hearts,
But leaves a sting behind.
2. With names of virtue she deceives
The aged and the young;
And while the heedless wretch believes,
She makes his fetters strong.
3. She pleads for all the joys she brings,
And gives a fair pretence;
But cheats the soul of heav'nly things,
And chains it down to sense.
4. So on a tree divinely fair
Grew the forbidden food;
Our mother took the poison there,
And tainted all her blood.
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