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BUT if the foe no more without presides	A
There is an inner chamber where it hides	A
In that strong hold prepares its last defence	B
And none but heavenly arms can drive it thence	B
This is the Christian's conflict he alone	C
Pursues its flight to that interior throne	C
This is the test that makes his title clear	D
For only they approve their aim sincere	D
Who seek the flattering world to dispossess	E
Where none but God and conscience have access	E
All modes by man devised to purchase bliss	F
Full well he knows are cheaper far than this	F
Hence the attempt with penance pain and loss	G
And prayers and alms to frame a lighter cross	G
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To travel barefoot to some hallowed shrine	H
If this would do how soon should Heaven be mine	H
To walk with God resigning every weight	I
To run with patience up to Zion's gate	I
To hold affections fixt on things above	J
To value heavenly more than earthly love	J
To dread the frown of God's discerning eye	K
More than the world's opprobrious calumny	L
To keep faith's prospects prominent and clear	D
To seek not rest nor wish to find it here	M
Is harder work too hard for arms like ours	N
Opposed by principalities and powers	N
Had He not covenanted to supply	K
Helmet and shield from Heaven's armory	L
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A ceaseless round of mummery to fulfil	K
Leaves the world's empire unmolested still	K
Nor more effective every outward way	O
By which we seek to disavow its sway	O
The downcast look grave habit slow address	E
Are vain attempts to make the labour less	E
There is an inward army to pursue	P
A mere external conflict will not do	P
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They who sincerely bid the world depart	Q
Not only from the house but from the heart	Q
Retreating wisely where its torrent roars	R
And anxious still to shut it out of doors	R
Contract their wishes to the sober size	S
Of fire side comfort and domestic ties	S
Yet they should deem the battle but begun	T
Nor think at such light cost the victory won	T
Whatever passes as a cloud between	U
The mental eye of faith and things unseen	U
Causing that better world to disappear	D
Or seem unlovely and the present dear	D
That is our world our idol though it bear	V
Affection's impress or devotion's air	V
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They who the quiet walks of life may choose	W
Partly for Heaven's sake partly for the muse	W
Whose taste had led them from the giddy train	X
Even if conscience did not say 'refrain '	-
Though wise and good the choice had need beware	V
They shun an obvious for a hidden snare	V
The fair bright paths of wit and learning may	O
Lead off directly from the narrow way	O
The pride of intellect the conscious height	Y
The soul attains to in her mental flight	Y
At length may cause a less exalted seat	Z
To seem too lowly at the Saviour's feet	Z
Music the pencil nature books the muse	W
Have charms and Heaven designed them for our use	A2
Yet who that knows and loves them but could tell	K
The world disguised in all in each may dwell	K
With charm as fatal with a spell as strong	B2
As that which circles pleasure's vacant throng	B2
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'Tis true and therefore some pronounce in haste	C2
Urged less by conscience than by want of taste	C2
A sweeping censure on the cultured mind	D2
And safety hope in ignorance to find	D2
Alas they know not how the world can cheat	Z
Or rather know not their own heart's deceit	Z
The ground that lies uncultured and unsown	X
With rampant weeds is quickly overgrown	X
And they who leave the mental field undrest	Z
Deeming all knowledge useless but the best	Z
And give those hours that duty freely spares	E2
Not to superior but to vulgar cares	E2
Will find these lead from heavenly converse back	F2
Not less than those and by a meaner track	F2
'Twas by no mental feast no studious thought	Z
Her soul was cumbered and her Lord forgot	Z
Who lost the unction of His gracious word	Z
Which waiting at His feet another heard	Z
Those toils engrossed her that may hold the heart	Z
In closest bondage from the better part	Z
And though that board was spread for such a guest	Z
As none may now bid welcome to a feast	Z
Her guest her Lord reproved her as He will	K
The busy Marthas serving cumbered still	K
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Ask the good housewife mid her bustling maids	G2
If ne'er the world her humbler sphere invades	G2
But if unconscious of its secret sway	O
She own it not her eager looks betray	O
Yes there you find it spite of locks and bars	H2
Hid in the store room with her jams and jars	H2
It gilds her china in her cupboard shines	I2
Works at the vent peg of her home made wines	I2
Each varied dainty to her board supplies	S
And comes up smoking in her Christmas pies	S
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The charms of mental converse some may fear	D
Who scruple not to lend a ready ear	M
To kitchen tales of scandal strife and love	J
Which make the maid and mistress hand and glove	J
And ever deem the sin and danger less	E
Merely for being in a vulgar dress	E
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Thus the world haunts in forms of varied kind	Z
The intellectual and the groveling mind	Z
Now sparkling in the muse's fair attire	J2
Now red and greasy at the kitchen fire	J2
And were you called to give a casting voice	K2
One to select from such a meagre choice	K2
Deciding which life's purpose most mistook	L2
Would you not say the worldly minded cook	L2
Not intellectual vanity to flatter	J2
Simply that mind precedence claims of matter	J2
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And she whose nobler course is seen to shine	X
At once with human knowledge and divine	X
Who mental culture and domestic rites	M2
In close and graceful amity unites	M2
Striving to hold them in their proper place	N2
Not interfering with her heavenly race	N2
Whose constant aim it is and fervent prayer	V
On earthly ground to breathe celestial air	V
Still she could witness how the world betrays	O2
Steals softly in by unsuspected ways	O2
Her yielding soul from heavenly converse bears	E2
And holds her captive in its silken snares	E2
Could she not tell the trifles that are brought	Z
To rival Heaven and drive it from her thought	Z
Her heart unconscious of the flowery trap	P2
Caught in the sprigs upon a baby's cap	P2
Thence disengaged its freedom boasts awhile	K
Till taken captive by the baby's smile	K
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But oh how mournful when resistance fails	Q2
The conflict slackens and the foe prevails	Q2
For instance yonder matron who appears	R2
Softly descending in the vale of years	R2
And yet with health and constant care bestowed	Z
Still comely embonpoint and la mode	Z
Once in her youthful days her heart was warm	S2
At least her feelings wore devotion's form	S2
And ever since to quell the rising doubt	Z
She makes that grain of godliness eke out	Z
With comfort still the distant day she sees	T2
When grief or terror brought her to her knees	T2
When Christian friends rejoiced at what she told	Z
And bade her welcome to the church's fold	Z
There still she rests her words her forms the same	U2
There holds profession's lamp without the flame	U2
Her Sabbaths come and go with even pace	N2
Year after year you find her in her place	N2
And still no change apparent saving that	Z
Of time and fashion in her face and hat	Z
She stands or kneels as usual hears and sings	V2
Goes home and dines and talks of other things	V2
Enjoys her comforts with as strong a go t	Z
As if they were not fading from her view	P
And still is telling what she means to do	P
Talks of events that happen to befall	K
Not like a stranger passing from it all	K
But eager anxious in their issue still	K
Hoping this will not be or that it will	K
Getting enjoying all that can be had	Z
Amused with trifles and at trifles sad	Z
While hope still whispers in her willing ears	R2
'Soul thou hast goods laid up for many years '	-
A few brief words her character portray	O
This world contents her if she might but stay	O
When true and fervent pilgrims round her press	E
She inly wishes that their zeal were less	E
Their works of love their spirit faith and prayers	E2
Their calm indifference to the world's affairs	E2
Reproach her deadhess and she fain for one	X
Would call their zeal and ardour overdone	X
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But what her thought is what her hope and stay	O
In moments of reflection who shall say	O
Time does not slacken nay he speeds his pace	N2
Bearing her onward to	P

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