Anxious thought to avarice tends

Verse 1
Anxious thought to avarice tends,
Anxious thought our Lord forbids,
To the birds and lilies sends:
He who all his creatures feeds,
If we dare in Him confide,
Will he not for man provide?

Verse 2
He who form’d our curious frame,
He in whom till now we live,
Is he not in love the same,
Ready all we want to give?
Thoughtless then for clothes and food,
Cast we all our care on God.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life what ye shall eat, neither for the body &c.'—[Luke 12,] v. 22, 23.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 138-39.
Publishing: Public Domain