Weary life of sin and grief,
O when shall it be o’er!
Destitute of love’s relief,
I can hold out no more:
But if love my cross sustain,
If Jesus makes my burthens his,
Weariness is rest, and pain
Is everlasting bliss.
Weary life of sin and grief
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “In weariness and painfulness.”—[2 Cor.] xi. 27. 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 52.
Publishing: Public Domain