Soon as I render up the ghost,
The worm on this vile body preys,
Shocking to those who lov’d it most,
’Tis sown in ruinous disgrace,
Loathsome, remov’d from human sight,
It heavenly dignity receives,
And cloath’d with robes of purest light,
And glorious as its Maker lives.
Soon as I render up the ghost
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory.”—[1 Cor.] xv. 43. 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 39.
Publishing: Public Domain