Yes, my Lord may justly leave me,
Me who first my Lord forsook,
Never, never more forgive me,
Blot my name out of his book:
But if I, again forgiven,
Reach at last the happy shore,
How shall all the hosts of heaven
Shout, and wonder, and adore!
Yes, my Lord may justly leave me
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The last state of that man is worse than the first.”—[Matt.] xii. 45. 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. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 265.
Publishing: Public Domain