Thine own in Samson’s state behold,
Impotent wretch, by sin allur’d,
To Satan and his children sold,
Blinded, in brasen chains secur’d,
Thy loss of liberty and sight,
The wages of thy folly feel,
And groan consign’d to endless night,
The scorn of earth, and drudge of hell!
Thine own in Samson’s state behold
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Philistines took him and put out his eyes, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he did grind in the prison-house.”—[Judg.] xvi. 21. 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 140.
Publishing: Public Domain