Religion
Jonah: Our joy in a created good
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 10 (1871)
Religion
Our joy in a created good
How soon it fades away,
Fades (at the morning hour bestow'd)
Before the noon of day:
Joy by its violent excess
To certain ruin tends.
And all our rapturous happiness
In hasty sorrow ends.
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MLA
Wesley, Charles. “Jonah: Our joy in a created good.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3794/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Jonah: Our joy in a created good.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3794/.
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