Religion

Mark 5:5, 6: And always, night and day, he was in the, &c

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

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

Religion

Where social virtue never comes,
Among the dead in sin he roams,
Nor finds a moment's rest.
Tortured by contrary desires,
Pride, lust, and rage, he stirs the fires
The Tophet in his breast.

How shall he 'escape the hell within?
The' intolerable yoke of sin
How can he break or bear?
O, let him run our Lord to meet,
And worship at his Saviour's feet,
And cry for mercy there.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:5, 6: And always, night and day, he was in the, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4719/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Mark 5:5, 6: And always, night and day, he was in the, &c.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/4719/.

Read this poem with the Codex →

More by Charles Wesley