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Throw out the Life-Line! Throw out the Life-Line! Someone is drifting away; Throw out the Life-Line! Throw out the Life-Line! Someone is sinking today. 2 Throw out the Life-Line with hand quick and strong: Why do you tarry, why linger so long? See! he is sinking; oh, hasten today— And out with the Life-Boat! away, then, away! 3 Throw out the Life-Line to danger fraught men, Sinking in anguish where you’ve never been: Winds of temptation and billows of woe Will soon hurl them out where the dark waters flow. 4 Soon will the season of rescue be o’er, Soon will they drift to eternity’s shore; Haste then, my brother, no time for delay, But throw out the Life-Line and save them today.