Angels the virgin-mother bless

Verse 1
Angels the virgin-mother bless,
All ages her renown declare:
But greater blessings we possess
Who in our hearts the Saviour bear:
She suckled the celestial Child;
Fed with the milk of his own word,
We know our Father reconcil’d,
And feast by faith on Christ the Lord.

Verse 2
We hear the word divine and do,
Strong in the grace which Christ bestows,
And drink the wine forever new,
The joy which from his Spirit flows,
Which angel-tongues can ne’er express,
The bliss to saints triumphant given,
While all our happy souls confess,
Obedient love is present heaven.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Yea, rather blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep it.'—[Luke 11,] v. 28.” 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 131.
Publishing: Public Domain