Eager alas, for sensual good,
Indulging thy ambition vain,
What findst thou in that pleasant food,
But bitterness of shame and pain?
The punishment for the offence
How just! How suitably applied
Anguish to mortify thy sense,
Subjection to chastise thy pride!
Eager alas, for sensual good
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy husband shall rule over thee.”—[Gen.] iii. 16. 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 9.
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