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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.
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;
4 For certainly our dearest Lord VVill quickly come away; The mid-night Cry will soon be heard, His Chariots will not stay.
5 O take thy flight on Wings of Love, And like the nimble Hart, Come, Lord, O come down from above! Let's meet and never part.
5 O take thy flight on VVings of Love, And like the nimble Hart, Come, Lord, O come down from above! Let's meet and never part.
6 The Bride saith, Come, O do not stay! And he that hears thy voice, In hopes that thou wilt come away, Most sweetly does rejoice.