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Ester 437
Tune: John S. Terry, 1859
Lyrics: Hall’s New Collection, 1804
Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)
Young ladies, all attention give,
You that in wicked pleasures live;
One of your sex the other day,
Was called by death's cold hand away.
This lesson she has left for you,
To teach the careless what to do;
To seek Jehovah while you live,
And everlasting honors give.
Her honored mother she addressed,
While tears were streaming down her breast;
She grasped her tender hands and said:
“Remember me when I am dead.”
She called her father to her bed,
And thus, in dying anguish said:
“My days on earth are at an end,
My soul is summoned to attend.”
“Before Jehovah's awful bar,
To hear my awful sentence there;
And now, dear father, do repent,
And read the holy Testament.”