Darkness and Light

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"We were sometimes darkness.”
Life passing aimlessly,
Seeking for joys,
Building bright hopes upon
Frail earthly toys;
Satan gilt time for us
As it slipped by,
Little we thought of God
Then you and I.
Pleasure an opiate,
Making us deem
Hell but an idle threat,
Heaven a dream;
Caught in his world-web,
Like any fly,
Satan had hold of us
Then—you and I.
Varied his baits for us
In that vain life,
Different paths we trod
Down in its strife;
Down to its ending in
Hell, by and bye,
Heedlessly drifting on,
Then—you and I.