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Spiritual melody
Spiritual melody, containing near three hundred sacred hymns. By Benjamin Keach, author of Trhopolgia, pastor of the Church of Christ meeting on Horsly-down, Southwark
London: printed for John Hancock, 1691
Part 8 › Hymn 191 › Part 2: The Second Part. Awake ye Virgins.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Second Part. Awake ye Virgins.
1 O Virgins know, both Fools and Wise, The Bridegroom is at hand; He comes, he comes, let it suffice, But who with him shall stand?
1 O Virgins know, both Fools and VVise, The Bridegroom is at hand; He comes, he comes, let it suffice, But who with him shall stand?
2 He that his Lamp doth fitly trim, And Oil doth get good store, Shall then embraced be by him, And reign for evermore.
2 He that his Lamp doth fitly trim, And Oyl doth get good store, Shall then embraced be by him, And reign for evermore.
3 Cast off your drowse, let's all awake, 'Tis not a time to slumber; But speedily our Lamps lets take, And haste to th' Wedding-Chamber;
3 Cast off your drowze, let's all awake, 'Tis not a time to slumber; But speedily our Lamps lets take, And haste to th' VVedding-Chamber;