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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 
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Chapter 8

The State of the Lamp

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Say, is thy lamp burning, my sister!

i pray thee look quickly and see;

For if it were burning, then surely

Same ray would fall brightly on me!

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Though walking the road, yet I falter.

From the straight path I oft go astray;

I am weary, and faint, and disheartened,

Discouraged because of the way.

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But if only thy lamp had burned brightly,

And showed what the road was to thee;

I, too, might have journeyed more rightly,

And found the road better for me.

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There are many and many around thee

Needing sorely thy light's cheering glow:

if thou knew that they walked in the shadow,

Thy lamp would bum brighter, I know.

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i think were it trimmed night and morning,

lt would not so likely go out,

'Midst the fierce raging storms of temptation

Or the terrible tempest of doubt.

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Oh, if all the lamps that are lighted,

Would steadily bum in a line:

What guidance for many benighted!

What a girdle of glory would shine!

 

 

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