Aiming at the noblest end

Verse 1
Aiming at the noblest end,
Would I learn the art to please,
Yield to all, and condescend,
Sacrifice my time and ease,
Cast my own desires behind,
Live the servant of mankind.

Verse 2
Every gift on me bestow’d,
Let me, Lord, to all impart,
Studious of my neighbour’s good,
Serve him with a willing heart,
Serve with complaisance divine,
Serve, ’till both are wholly thine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Let every one of us please his neighbour, for his good to edification.”—[Rom.] xv. 2. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 21.
Publishing: Public Domain