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EXHORTATION.
L. M.
"Flee
also
youthful
lusts."
2
Tim.
2-22.
Key
of
A
Minor.
Doolittle.
Now,
in
the
heat
of
youth
-
ful
blood,
Re-mem
-
ber
your
Cre
-
a
-
tor,
God.
Be
Now,
in
the
heat
of
youth
-
ful
blood,
Re-mem
-
ber
your
Cre
-
a
-
tor,
God!
Be-hold
the
months
come
Be-hold
the
months
come
hast'ning
on,
When
Be
-
hold
the
months
come
hast'ning
on,
When
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone.
When
you
shall
say
My
joys
are
gone.
hold
the
months
come
hast'ning
on,
When
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone,
When
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone.
hast'ning
on,
When
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone.
Be-hold
the
months
come
hast'ning
on,
When
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone.
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone.
Be-hold
the
months
come
hast'
-
ning
on,
When
you
shall
say,
My
joys
are
gone,
The
words
of
the
above
tune
were
taken
from
"Mercer's
Cluster,"
by
Jesse
Mercer
of
Powellton,
Ga.,
published
In
1823,
Third
Edition,
page
174.
The
tune
is
credited
in
"Sacred
Harp"
from
1844
to
1869
to
"Doolittle."
Also
in
the
"Southern
Harmony"
by
William
Walker
in
1835
and
in
1848,
page
88.
It
is
believed
that
this
old
minor
melody
was
composed
long
before
it
was
printed
in
Walker's
Book.
No
data
can
be
found
about
Dr.
Doolittle.