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MORALITY.
10,
11, 11.
"But
I
thy
servant
fear
the
Lord
from
my
youth."-2
KINGS
18:
12.
Key
of
G
Major.
Alto
by
S.
M.
DENSON,
1911.
1.
While
beau
-
ty
and
youth
are
in
their
full
prime,
And
fol
-
ly
and
fash
-
ion
af
-
fect
our
whole
time;
2.
I
sigh
not
for
beau
-
ty,
nor
lan
-
guish
for
wealth,
But
grant
me,
kind
Prov
-
i
-
dence,
vir
-
tue
and
health;
3.
The
vain
and
the
young
may
at
-
tend
us
a
while,
But
let
not
their
flat
-
t'ry
our
pru
-
dence
be
-
guile;
Oh,
let
not
the
phan
-
tom
our
wish
-
es
en
-
gage;
Let
us
live
so
in
youth
that
we
blush
not
in
age.
age.
Then,
rich
-
er
than
kings,
and
far
hap
-
pier
than
they,
My
days
shall
pass
swift
-
ly
and
sweet
-
ly
a
-
way.
way.
Let
us
cov
-
et
those
charms
that
shall
nev
-
er
de
-
cay,
Nor
lis
-
ten
to
all
that
de
-
ceiv
-
ers
can
say.
say.
"Morality"
is
an
old
tune-much
older
than
the
oldest
Southern
books.
It
appears
with
the
same
words
in
"Southern
Harmony"
by
Walker,
1835,
page
44;
"Missouri
Harmony,"
1827
and
1837,
page
54.
All
the
books
referred
to
have
all
the
words,
containing
six
verses,
in
the
hymn,
but
none
discloses
the
author
of
the
music
or
words.