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The poetical publications of John and Charles Wesley originally appeared at various intervals during a span of fifty-three years. G. Osborn has collected, arranged, and provided notes for all of these important poems and hymns. Many of these works, especially those of Charles Wesley’s (whose work makes up the bulk of this collection), were never before published or published anonymously. Charles...

542. His father had not displeased him at any time, &c.—1:6. 1 THE parent indolently mild May here his fatal dotage see: Afraid to vex thy darling child, Thy darling child shall trouble thee, Make his indulgent father smart, And break thy old, fond, foolish heart. 2 “What pity ’tis, to cross his will, His clamorous appetites deny, Restrain the acts of childish ill, And make the fretted infant cry, Harshly his little faults reprove! How can I grieve the son I love?” 3 Continue then thy son