Watt's Songs Against Faults

Isaac Watts

Watt's Songs Against Faults

AGAINST LYING

O 'tis a lovely thing for youthTo walk betimes in wisdom's way;To fear a lie, to speak the truth,That we may trust to all they say!But liars we can never trust,Though they should speak the thing that's true;And he that does one fault at first,And lies to hide it, makes it two.Have we not known, nor heard nor readHow God abhors deceit and wrong?How Ananias was struck dead,Caught with a lie upon his tongue?So did his wife Sapphira die,When she came in, and grew so boldAs to confirm that wicked lie,Which just before her husband told.The Lord delights in them that speakThe words of truth; but every liarMust have his portion in the lakeThat burns with brimstone and with fire.Then let me always watch my lips,Lest I be struck to death and hell,Since God a book of reckoning keepsFor every lie that children tell.

LOVE BETWEEN BROTHERS AND SISTERS

Whatever brawls disturb the street,There should be peace at home;Where sisters dwell and brothers meetQuarrels should never come.Birds in their little nests agree;And 'tis a shameful sight,When children of one familyFall out, and chide, and fight.Hard names at first, and threat'ning wordsThat are but noisy breath,May grow to clubs and naked swords,To murder and to death.

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