Accurs’d by all, his memory shall rot,
Yet let the Wicked never be forgot,
But while the memory of the just is blest
Stand it in Britain’s chronicles confest,
That smooth, perfidious, perjur’d Sh[elburne] sold
His King, his Country, and his God for gold.
Accursed by all, his memory shall rot
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.’—Prov. 10. 7.” This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Patriotism.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 102.
Publishing: Public Domain