Whoe’er for sensual pleasures burn,
Or wish their lusts to gratify,
Back in their hearts to Egypt turn,
And basely for the fleshpots sigh;
And such, without repentance, shall
Death’s victims in the desart fall.
Whoe’er for sensual pleasures burn
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The multitude fell a lusting and said, Who shall give us flesh to eat?”—[Num.] xi. 4. 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 69.
Publishing: Public Domain