"For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do."
"The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven."
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Source: Isaac Watts (1856). “Twenty-Eight Divine Songs for the use of Children”, p.21
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