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

Our Joy in a Created Good

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


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.