Acquiring his first spot of ground,
A burying-place the patriarch found:
May I, like him, a stranger rove,
Heir of the promis’d land above;
The settlement on earth I crave,
The sole possession is—a grave!
Acquiring his first spot of ground
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The field and the cave were made sure to Abraham, for a possession of a burying-place.”—[Gen.] xxiii. 20. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 25.
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