When shall the happy moment come

Verse 1
When shall the happy moment come,
Which calls our dust out of the tomb
To see thy glories shine,
Which doth our slumbring eyes unseal,
And all the mysteries reveal,
And all the truths Divine!

Verse 2
The world and all we valued here
Shall then an empty dream appear,
And vanish from our view,
While Thee triumphant on thy throne
We see surrounded with thine own,
Creating all things new.

Verse 3
The fulness of the Deity
Ev’n I shall then adore in Thee,
And on thy beauties gaze,
Injoy the pure, eternal light,
And fall transported at the sight
In extasy of praise.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they were awake they saw his glory, and the two men that stood with him.’—[Luke 9,] v. 32.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 184.
Publishing: Public Domain