Why will you grasp the fleet­ing smoke

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Nor set your hearts on glit­ter­ing dust;

Why will you grasp the fleet­ing smoke

And not be­lieve what God has spoke?

My Spirit Looks to God Alone

lyricist: Isaac Watts, 1719
Composer: William Aitken, 1912
Hymn 1

...Nor set your hearts on glit­ter­ing dust;

Why will you grasp the fleet­ing smoke,

And not be­lieve what God has spoke?...

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Nor set your hearts on glit­ter­ing dust;

Why will you grasp the fleet­ing smoke,

And not be­lieve what God has spoke?

My Spirit Looks to God Alone

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