Blooming, heart-bewitching Maid

Verse 1
Blooming, heart-bewitching Maid,
Lovely as an opening Flower,
Soon alas, your charms shall fade,
Scarce outlive the morning hour:
Tho’ they scape a fever’s rage,
Envious Time they cannot fly:
Wither’d by decrepit Age,
You and all your charms shall die!

Verse 2
Counsel’d by a friendly Child,
Vertue’s Loveliness to win,
Tender, affable, and mild,
Fair without, be Good within,
Study to oblige and please;
Fair indeed You thus become,
Real charms you thus possess,
Charms that shall for ever bloom!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “To Miss Ludlow.” 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 1977/583/21, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 380.
Publishing: Public Domain