Confin’d in a dungeon of clay,
Exil’d from the Saviour I love,
I long to be summon’d away,
I groan for a speedy remove:
O when shall I come to appear
With joy in the presence divine,
To find him essentially near,
To know him eternally mine!
Confin’d in a dungeon of clay
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “When shall I come to appear before the presence of God!”—[Psalm] xlii. 2. 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 298.
Publishing: Public Domain