Warn’d of my dissolution near,
I see my one great business here;
To thee for wisdom cry:
Wisdom to live? ’Tis now too late!
But O, before I meet my fate,
Instruct me how to die!
Warn’d of my dissolution near, I see my one great business
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.”—[Psalm] xc. 12. 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 315.
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