Such may all my anger be

Verse 1
Such may all my anger be,
Sin when I in others see,
Not the pagan passion blind,
Rage of a vindictive mind,
But the fervency of zeal
Pain’d for those who cannot feel.

Verse 2
Lord, impart thy grief to me,
Grief for man’s obduracy;
Angry at the sin alone,
Let me for the sinner groan,
Till his hardness thou remove,
His, and mine, by dying love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts.”—[Mark] iii. 5. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 463.
Publishing: Public Domain