Narrow and Strait

Why do you lin­ger

why do you stay

In the broad road

that most dan­ger­ous way?

While right be­fore you

nar­row and strait

Is the bright path­way to Heav’n’s pear­ly gate?

Narrow and strait

nar­row and strait

Is the bright path­way to Heav’n’s pear­ly gate.

Do you find plea­sures

last­ing and pure

In the gay scenes that the thought­less al­lure?

While your Re­deem­er

with love so great

Points to the way that is nar­row and strait?

Come

then

be­lov­èd

no long­er stay;

Leave the broad high­way

O leave it to­day;

Make your de­ci­sion

O

do not wait;

Take thou the path­way so nar­row and strait.