Th’ elect on wings of eagles borne
Shall soon with rapid joy return,
To Jesus gather’d in the skies
Behold their God with eagles eyes:
The Sight shall make their heavenly feast;
The saints with his full presence blest
Shall live to sing, and love, and gaze
An age of everlasting days.
Th’ elect on wings of eagles borne
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Wheresoever the body is, there shall the eagles be gathered together.’—[Luke 17,] v. 37.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 168.
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