DESCRIPTION:
Recording from the 2009 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singing Convention.
www.wmshc.org

Image from the 1860 edition of the Sacred Harp, available online from the Library of Congress.

From www.FaSoLa.org:

Tune: Daniel Read, 1785
Words: Isaac Watts, 1707
Meter: Long Meter (8,8,8,8)

Broad is the road that leads to death
And thousands walk together there;
But wisdom shows a narrow path,
With here and there a traveler.

Deny thyself, and take thy cross,
Is the Redeemers great command;
Nature must count her gold but dross,
If she would gain this heavnly land.

The fearful soul that tires and faints
And walks the ways of God no more,
Is but esteemed almost a saint,
And makes his own destruction sure.

Lord, let not all my hopes be vain,
Create my heart entirely new,
Which hypocrites could neer attain,
Which false apostates never knew.