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A FAREWELL TO THE WORLD, by                    
First Line: "world, adieu, thou real cheat!"
Last Line: Of thy everlasting reign
Subject(s): Farewell; Parting


WORLD, adieu, thou real cheat!
Oft have thy deceitful charms
Fill'd my heart with fond conceit,
Foolish hopes, and false alarms:
Now I see, as clear as day,
How thy follies pass away.

Vain thy entertaining sights;
False thy promises renew'd;
All the pomp of thy delights
Does but flatter and delude:
Thee I quit for Heav'n above,
Object of the noblest love.

Farewell honour's empty pride!
Thy own nice, uncertain gust,
If the least mischance betide,
Lays thee lower than the dust:
Worldly honours end in gall,
Rise to-day, to-morrow fall.

Foolish vanity, farewell!
More inconstant than the wave;
Where thy soothing fancies dwell,
Purest tempers they deprave:
He, to whom I fly from thee,
JESUS CHRIST, shall set me free.

Never shall my wandering mind
Follow after fleeting toys;
Since in GOD alone I find
Solid and substantial joys:
Joys that, never overpast,
Thro' enternity shall last.

Lord, how happy is a Heart,
After Thee while it aspires!
True and faithful as thou art,
Thou shall answer its desires:
It shalt see the glorious scene
Of thy everlasting reign.





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