Sacred Poems and Hymns ‎#26

26. What is the World?

What is the World?--a wildering maze,
Where sin hath track'd ten thousand ways,
Her victims to ensnare;
All broad, and winding, and aslope,
All tempting with perfidious hope,
All ending in despair.

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Millions of pilgrims throng those roads,
Bearing their baubles or their loads,
Down to eternal night;
--One only path that never bends,
Narrow, and rough, and steep, ascends
From darkness into light.

Is there no guide to show that path?
The Bible!--He alone who hath
The Bible need not stray;
But He who hath, and will not give
That light of life to all that live,
Himself shall lose the way.

Text Information

• First Line: What is the World?
• Title: What is the World?
• Author: James Montgomery
• Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6
• Language: English
• Publication Date: 1854
• Topic: Bible; Pilgrimage of life

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