Through life’s short waking dream

Thro’ life’s short waking dream
By faith we live with him,
And sinking into rest,
We fall upon his breast,
Thro’ all eternity to prove
The truth, the life, the heaven of love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.”—[1 Thess.] v. 10. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 92.
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