Religion
Isaiah 64: We fade as the leaf
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
Religion
Well doth a summer leaf explain
The transient state of feeble man;
We flourish fair in youthful bloom.
Till age and pallid autumn come;
He comes with sickness at his side,
He withers all our verdant pride;
And shook with the first stormy gust,
We drop, and crumble into dust.
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Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 64: We fade as the leaf.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3568/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 64: We fade as the leaf.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3568/.
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