Religion

Revelation 2:2: Happy the man, who poor and low

by Charles Wesley 1707–1788

From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 13 (1872)

Religion

Happy the man, who poor and low,
Less goodness in himself conceives
Than Christ doth of His servant know;
Who saved from self-reflection lives,
Unconscious of the grace bestow'd,
Simply resign'd, and lost in God.

Himself he cannot perfect call,
Or to the meanest saint prefer,
Meanest himself, and least of all:
And when the glorious character
His spotless soul with Christ receives,
His state—to that great day he leaves.

MLA

Wesley, Charles. “Revelation 2:2: Happy the man, who poor and low.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7137/.

Chicago

Wesley, Charles. “Revelation 2:2: Happy the man, who poor and low.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7137/.

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