Happy America, whose ruinous wars,
Direful calamities, and loss extreme,
One single man, (above man’s height) repairs,
In rank sublime, in dignity supreme:
To gain a C[oke] is “ample Compensation[”]
For half a million slain, and general Desolation!
Happy America, whose ruinous wars
Hymnal/Album: This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Ordinations.” 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 1977/157, in the John Wesley papers JW V.III). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 89.
Publishing: Public Domain