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The Idle Word

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 30, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 28, No. 22.

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The Idle Word.

By C. A. Ellis

First Voice.
It passed away, it passed away; Thou canst not hear the sound to-day; 'Twas water lost upon the ground, Or wind that vanisheth in sound; Oh, who shall gather it, or tell How idly from the lip it fell?
Second Voice.
'Tis written with an iron pen, And thou shalt hear it yet again; A solemn thing it then shall seem, To trifle with a holy theme. Oh, let our highest accent be Uttered as for eternity.
Selected for Review by C. A. Ellis.