Happy the child of misery

Verse 1
Happy the child of misery
Who doth on earth affliction see,
And Jesus cross embrace,
Who evil patiently receives,
In indigence and sorrow lives
The life of righteousness.

Verse 2
For momentary sufferings here
The Saviour shall his follower chear,
Before he hence remove,
With tastes of bliss unspeakable;
And when he leaves the weeping vale,
With all the joys above.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But now he is comforted.’—[Luke 16,] v. 25.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), pages 159-60.
Publishing: Public Domain