Fain would I, Lord, from earth remove,
Made meet before thy face t’ appear:
But tell me first thy name is love,
But shew me all thy goodness here:
Borne on the wings of faith and hope,
I then shall to the mountain fly,
And yield my raptur’d spirit up,
And fainting on thy bosom die.
Fain would I Lord from earth remove
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Get thee up into the top of Pisgah.”—[Deut.] iii. 27. 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 91.
Publishing: Public Domain