Woe to you who laugh and play

Wo to you who laugh and play,
Who in mirth and pleasures live,
Cast your jocond [jocund] souls away!
Ye shall soon lament and grieve,
Weep and wail with fiends below
Doom’d to everlasting woe.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Wo unto you that laugh now: for ye shall mourn and weep.'—[Luke 6,] v. 25.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 152.
Publishing: Public Domain