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Text:What Hath This Wretched World To Give?
Author:Charles Wesley
Tune:JULIAN
Composer:Frederick Charles Maker, 1844-1927
Media:MIDI file

3206. What Hath This Wretched World To Give?

What hath this wretched world to give
Which Christians can with joy receive?
Its goods for one short moment stay,
And pass insensibly away:
I seek a permanent reward;
The favor of my glorious Lord,
The gift unspeakable be mine,
And all the heav’n of love divine.

Text Information
First Line: What hath this wretched world to give
Title: What Hath This Wretched World To Give?
Author: Charles Wesley
Meter: LMD
Language: English
Source: Short Hymns on Select Passages of Holy Scripture (Bristol, England: E. Farley, 1762), alt.
Copyright: Public Domain
Tune Information
Name: JULIAN
Composer: Frederick Charles Maker, 1844-1927
Meter: LMD
Key: C Major
Copyright: Public Domain



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