The world has lost its charms.
LET worldly minds the world pursue;
It has no charms for me:
Once I admired its trifles too,
But grace hath set me free.
2 Its pleasures can no longer please,
Nor happiness afford:
Far from my heart be joys like these,
Now I have seen the Lord.
3 As by the light of opening day
The stars are all conceal’d,
So earthly pleasures fade away,
When Jesus is reveal’d.
4 Creatures no more divide my choice;
I bid them all depart:
His name, his love, his gracious voice,
Have fix’d my roving heart.
John Newton
Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1870 edition)
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