TIME LOST


God gave me an hour, I wasted it;


He gave me a day, What a loss!


I let it slip into eternity,


Without taking up my cross.





He gave me then, a week, a month,


He let me have a year,


But still my cross, I didn't take;


His yoke, I didn't wear.





How many souls could I have won;


How many crowns are lost;


By wasting hours, days and years,


And not taking up my cross?





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