See the fruit of worldly cares!
They that will be rich or great
Fall into ten thousand snares,
Fall at last into the pit,
Drown’d in bottomless perdition,
Curst with their own heart’s desire,
Banish’d from the blissful vision,
Plung’d in everlasting fire!
See the fruit of worldly cares
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They that will (Gr., are willing to) be rich, fall into a snare, &c.”—[1 Tim.] vi. 9. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 103.
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