How few by his example led

How few by his example led
Jesus’ obscurity desire,
Its proffer’d pomp and grandeur dread,
And gladly from the world retire!
Join’d to the poor inglorious few
Fain would I, Lord, the people shun,
Thee to the sacred mount pursue,
And live conceal’d with Thee alone.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When Jesus perceived that they would come and take him by force, to make him a king, he departed again into a mountain himself alone.’—[John 6,] v. 15." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 238.
Publishing: Public Domain