Religion
Job 14:1, 2: Man, born of a woman impure
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Religion
Man, born of a woman impure,
To trouble and misery born,
Not meant upon earth to endure.
Must soon to corruption return:
Cut down as a flourishing flower,
He fades, as a shadow he flies,
His beauty is gone in an hour;
He blooms for a moment, and dies.
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Wesley, Charles. “Job 14:1, 2: Man, born of a woman impure.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3108/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Job 14:1, 2: Man, born of a woman impure.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3108/.
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