Worldly wretch, let go thy hold,
Grasp at earth, at air, no more!
Get th’ imperishable gold,
Wisdom’s never-failing store:
One of wisdom’s mines possest
Can no other riches see,
Cries, “Who will may take the rest,
Christ is wealth enough for me!”
Worldly wretch, let go thy hold
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “With all thy getting get wisdom.”—Prov. iv. 7. 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 345.
Publishing: Public Domain