As an eagle cleaves the air,
Whose wings support her young,
Jesus doth his people bear,
As swift, as smooth, as strong!
Saviour, urge thy rapid flight,
Soar to that sublime abode,
Bear us far above all height,
And bring us home to God.
As an eagle cleaves the air
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself.”—[Exod.] xix. 4. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 51.
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