Thee let Thy own love constrain

Thee let thy own love constrain
With thy followers to remain,
Now the shades of night are near,
Do not, Saviour, disappear:
With us still vouchsafe t’ abide,
Thro’ the dreary valley guide,
On Thyself our spirits stay,
Bear us to eternal day.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘They constrained him, saying, Abide with us, for it is towards evening.'—[Luke 24,] v. 29.” 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 309.
Publishing: Public Domain