The present life our passage is

Verse 1
The present life our passage is,
The world we must cross o’re,
As vessels tost on dangerous seas,
To that eternal shore:
Temptation is the stormy wind,
Corruption’s stream we feel,
Which fills our feeble heart and mind,
Which sinks us into hell.

Verse 2
We sink as every moment down
Into the threatning deep,
And Jesus seems to leave his own,
And Providence to sleep:
Higher he lets the tempest rise,
He lets the floods o’reflow,
And darkness intercepts the skies,
And Tophet yawns below.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He entred into a ship with his disciples &c.’—[Luke 8,] v. 22, 23.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 105.
Publishing: Public Domain