Good, I feel it is, for me

Verse 1
Good, I feel it is, for me,
Chasten’d in my youth to be,
By my heavenly Father’s care
Pain and sorrow’s yoke to bear:
Thus I gain my heart’s desire,
From an evil world retire,
Hide me in the secret shade,
Live, as free among the dead.

Verse 2
Let the world in eager chase
Pant for pleasure, power, or praise,
Silent and alone I sit,
Fall by turns at Jesu’s feet,
Lay my mouth as in the dust,
Find him merciful and just,
Joyful in affliction prove
All his ways are truth and love!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It is good for a man, that he bear the yoke in his youth. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence.... He putteth his mouth in the dust.”—[Lam.] iii. 27, 28, 29. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 50.
Publishing: Public Domain