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What is this world? a wildering maze Where sin hath tracked ten thousand ways, Her victims to ensnare. All broad, all winding, and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair. Millions of pilgrims throng those roads, Bearing their baubles or their loads, Down to eternal night; Our humble path that never bends, Narrow, and rough, and steep, ascends From darkness into light. Is there a guide to show that path? The Bible! He alone who hath The Bible, need not stray; Yet he who hath, and will not give That heavenly guide to all that live, Himself shall lose the way.
What is this world? a wildering maze Where sin hath tracked ten thousand ways, Her victims to ensnare. All broad, all winding, and aslope, All tempting with perfidious hope, All ending in despair. Millions of pilgrims throng those roads, Bearing their baubles or their loads, Down to eternal night; Our humble path that never bends, Narrow, and rough, and steep, ascends From darkness into light. Is there a guide to show that path? The Bible! He alone who hath The Bible, need not stray; Yet he who hath, and will not give That heavenly guide to all that live, Himself shall lose the way.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- J. Montgomery (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 64 · printed citation: J. Montgomery · subject: THE BIBLE
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