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Make Haste to Live

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Apr 4, 1865

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 25, No. 18.

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Make Haste to Live.

By Horatius Bonar

Make haste O man to live, For thou so soon may'st die; Time hurries past thee like the breeze; How swift the moments fly.
To breathe, and work, and sleep, To smile, to sigh, to grieve; To move in idleness through earth, This, this is not to live.
Make haste, O man, to do Whatever must be done; Thou hast no time to lose in sloth, Thy day will soon be gone.
Up then with speed, and work; Fling ease and self away; This is no time for thee to sleep, Up, watch, and work, and pray!
The useful, not the great, The thing that never dies; The silent toil that is not lost,— Set these before thine eyes.
The seed, whose leaf and flower, Though poor in human sight, Brings forth at last the eternal fruit, Sow thou by day and night.
Make haste, O man to live, Thy time is almost o'er; Oh! sleep not, dream not, but arise, The judge is at the door! —H. Bonar.