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the rose.
And so sin blithely leads us on
Along a smooth and flowering way!
We start to find our hope is gone
Amidst the darkness and decay!
Along a smooth and flowering way!
We start to find our hope is gone
Amidst the darkness and decay!
Deceitful world! thy pleasures are
But as the vain and crumbling dust;
Oh'! where the form on earth or star,
The human heart can simply trust!
But as the vain and crumbling dust;
Oh'! where the form on earth or star,
The human heart can simply trust!
