IF LOVE COULD SEE.
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If love could see each other’s heart,
And read the truth which they impart;
Much doubt and fears it would relieve,
No love would e’er have ought to grieve.
TEMPTATION.
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Since I got ’ligion
Tryin’ to do what’s right
Devil, jus’ to temp’ me,
Keeps ol’ sin in sight.
Farmers plant th’ir melons
Jam up ’gin the fence;
Leave the hen-coops open
Like they got no sense.
Man who own the orch’rd
Don mov’ off to town;
Peaches an’ the apples
Rot’nin’ on the groun.’