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Cross Keys L.M.

By Aldo Thomas Ceresa

Key
A minor
Type
Plain tune
Time signature
2
2
Composed
2006–13
Text
Isaac Watts, alt. by John Rippon, 1787

Text

O sinner, why so thoughtless grown?
Why in such dreadful haste to die?
Daring to leap to worlds unknown,
Heedless against thy God to fly.

Wilt thou despise eternal fate,
Urg'd on by sin's delusive dreams?
Madly attempt th'infernal gate,
And force thy passage to the flames?

Stay, sinner! on the gospel plains,
And hear the Lord of life unfold
The glories of his dying pains,
Forever telling, yet untold.