Wesley, John, 1703-1791 / Wesley, Charles, 1707-1788: 1488.
  [from The Poetical Works (1868)]
 

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 Our Joy in a Created Good </CENTER></H4>




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Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.---iv. 6.



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<BR>   Our   joy in a created good



<BR>  How soon it fades away,

<BR>   Fades (at the morning hour bestow'd)

<BR>  Before the noon of day:

<BR>  Joy by its violent excess

<BR> To certain ruin tends,

<BR>  And all our rapturous happiness

<BR>  In hasty sorrow ends.