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HYMN 12. The World degenerate.
To the tune of the Ten Commandments: Or, All People, &c.
Gen. 6.1.
IT came to pass when men began
to multiply upon the Earth,
And Daughters born to many a man
were fair and beauteous from their birth;
That then the Sons of godly seed
did see the Daughters sprung from those
That practic'd many a wicked Deed,
and took them Wives of all they chose.
Then said the Lord, my spirit no more
shall strive with man that is but flesh;
Yet shall his years be twice threescore
to wait repentance and redress.
And God did see Mans works were nought,
and full of foul Iniquity:
Each motion of his heart and thought
was onely ill continually.
And God repented, for his part,
for making man upon the ground:
And lo: it griev'd him at his heart
that man so monstrous should be found.
I will destroy (the Lord then said)
both man and beast and creeping thing,
And fowl, and all that I have made,
for I repent their fashioning.