is there a hell?
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Thus did that awful spirit voice
Tell me that hell is man's own choice.
Thus do I tell
This strange thing, hoping it may win
Some soul from the dark path of sin,
From purpose fell;
For, surely as God liveth, I
Assert with all solemnity,—
There is a hell!
Tell me that hell is man's own choice.
Thus do I tell
This strange thing, hoping it may win
Some soul from the dark path of sin,
From purpose fell;
For, surely as God liveth, I
Assert with all solemnity,—
There is a hell!
And, from its dark and dread abyss,
The lost will gaze on worlds of bliss
Which they have lost;
Will see afar the pastures green,
The fountains with their silver sheen,
The shining host;
And know that they themselves have fixed
The barriers that lie betwixt
The happy coast.
The lost will gaze on worlds of bliss
Which they have lost;
Will see afar the pastures green,
The fountains with their silver sheen,
The shining host;
And know that they themselves have fixed
The barriers that lie betwixt
The happy coast.
