A lover’s hands to what shall we compare?
Call them the circle of a conjuror.
Easy the way to enter in and plain,
But you can never more get out again.
A lover’s hands to what shall we compare?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Epigram.” This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Nursery.” 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 1977/594/16, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 5). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 284.
Publishing: Public Domain