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Enos E. Dowling Hymnal Collection

Hymn: If life's pleasures charm you (FL)

Hymnal: The Sacred Melodeon

Date: 1848

Compiler: A S Hayden

Publisher/Printer: A S Hayden

First Line: If life's pleasures charm you

Topic: <no topic given>

Writer: <no first name given> <no last name given>

Composer: John Henry

Meter: 6s 5s 4s and 7s

Tune: Wittemberg

Hymn Number: <no hymn number given>

Page Number: 168, click to see hymnal pages

Lyics

If life's pleasures charm you,

Give them not your heart,

Lest the gift ensare you,

From your God to part;

His favour seek,

His praises speak,

Fix here your hope's foundation;

Serve him, and he 

Will ever be

The Rock of your salvation.