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Lyrics

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.’