Happy you to sorrow born,
Deeper griev’d for want of grace:
God shall comfort all that mourn;
Calm your mournful lot embrace,
Sow in tears, a moment weep,
Sure eternal joy to reap.
Happy you to sorrow born
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Blessed are ye that weep now: for ye shall laugh.'—[Luke 6,] v. 21.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 151.
Publishing: Public Domain