Verse 1
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For years they wandered
in the area known as only
wilderness beyond the Nile
and lost in circles of travel
even today with no known
road marks or may to travel.
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Verse 2
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When T.E. Lawrence went
he was known to say, "It is
no mistakes what they call
this wilderness, for once in
it is almost impossible to find
ones way out to the world again."
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Verse 3
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Yet everyday forth we go again
into the wilderness of a life born
with the knowledge to go, to be
but what and who and where
in this maze known as the world
yet to man it is the wilderness.
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Verse 4
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Seeking knowledge of others
who it seems at times know less
than what they are paid to know
we seek to learn from the past
in world to live for tomorrow's day
yet no rest is found in this morass.
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Verse 5
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Some cry 'lo here is the way, come'
while others say, 'no here is the way'
yet neither know nor harden unto
what or where or how or who is right
only that they need to move to live
for as scavengers they destroy all.
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Verse 6
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Now when we seek the peace of life
we are promised once now and then
where are we to look with no signs
about to tell us where we are now
and what it is that lies ahead of us
when we pick our steps into the maze.
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Verse 7
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Fear not say some for all will be found
fear all say other for only a few will be
and yet all still cry, 'lo here or there'
while I wait in the stillness of prayer
for the still small voice to whisper,
"The way is straight and narrow."
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Verse 8
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"Come follow me," the Master said,
and this still small voice asks of me,
"What has changed?" "Nothing,
nothing at all," I answer in reply,
and then the still small voice says,
"Then obey the commandments."
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