Let worldly minds the world pursue;
It has no charms for me:
Once I admired its trifles too,
But grace hath set me free.
Its pleasures can no longer please,
Nor happiness afford:
Far from my heart be joys like these,
Now I have seen the Lord.
As by the light of opening day
The stars are all conceal’d,
So earthly pleasures fade away,
When Jesus is reveal’d.
Creatures no more divide my choice
bid them all depart:
His name, his love, his gracious voice,
Have fix’d my roving heart.
Hymns for the Use of the Methodist Episcopal Church: With Tunes for Congregational Worship (1857, Carlton and Porter, New York).
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