Religion

Daniel 4:30: A not this great Babylon, that I have built?

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)

Religion

And dost thou not thyself suspect,
Vain founder of the rising sect.
Or thine own language see?
"Is not this Babylon the great,
Stablish'd in her sublime estate,
Built up to heaven — by me!"

The plan, and finish'd discipline,
The' exact econoiny is mine,
The whole, internal frame:
These monuments of my toil and thought
Now to perfection's summit brought
Immortalize my name.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Daniel 4:30: A not this great Babylon, that I have built?” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3728/.

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Wesley, Charles. “Daniel 4:30: A not this great Babylon, that I have built?” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3728/.

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