Happy poor who know your bliss

Happy poor who know your bliss,
Poor in goods and Spirit too!
Yours the gracious kingdom is,
Glory is prepar’d for you;
All by sacred want ye gain,
Kings in earth and heaven ye reign.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God.'—[Luke 6,] v. 20.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 151.
Publishing: Public Domain