Sluggard, out of thy sleep arise,
While yet on earth, lift up thine eyes,
Awake, or thou shalt want e’re long
A watry drop, to cool thy tongue,
Awake, or thou shalt shortly feel
The sleeper sleeps no more in hell.
Sluggard, out of thy sleep arise
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou rise out of thy sleep?”—[Prov.] vi. 9. 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 346.
Publishing: Public Domain