Who can deny the Patriots their praise?
All Order is inverted in our days;
“King, Lords, and Commons” is no more the thing
But Commons, Lords, and after that—The King:
We see the Subjects on their Sovereign tread
The Crown beneath the Mace, the RUMP above the Head!
Who can deny the Patriots their praise?
Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in a letter that Charles Wesley wrote to John Langshaw on around March 23, 1784. This letter is held in the Charles Wesley Family Papers (MSS 159), 4/24, in the Pitts Library (Emory). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 392.
Publishing: Public Domain