Like him, in piety’s decay
I made my solitary moan,
Thou heardst thy desolate servant say
I, even I am left alone!
But now with open heart and eyes
Thousands I in our Israel see,
Who idols hate, the world despise,
Its god renounce, and follow thee.
Like him, in piety’s decay
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I, even I, only am left.”—[I. Kings] xix. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 180.
Publishing: Public Domain