Their first concern alas, is mine,
Not to appease the wrath divine,
But how to hide from man my shame,
And save my own important fame.
Their first concern alas! is mine
Hymnal/Album: Original title: “They sewed fig-leaves together, and made themselves aprons.”—[Gen.] iii. 7. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 6.
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