They are, as wither’d grass they are,
Who hate the church by thee belov’d;
But spare, our envious brethren spare,
And speak their barren curse remov’d,
Partakers of our blessings make,
And save us all for Jesu’s sake.
They are, as wither’d grass they are
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Let them be even as grass growing upon the house-tops.”—[Psalm] cxxix. 6. 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 334.
Publishing: Public Domain