Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the
temptation.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done!

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Temptation is the fire that brings up the scum of the heart.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

Terrible is the temptation to be good.

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

For I am that way going to temptation,
Where prayers cross.

So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
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So you tell yourself you are pretty find clay
To have tricked temptation and turned it away,
But wait, my friend, for a different day;
Wait till you want to want to!

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

He who cannot resist temptation is not a man.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.