Beneath a Daughter of affliction lies,
The tears forever banish’d from her eyes:
Wash’d in the laver of atoning blood
The Spirit here hath dropt her earthy load,
Fulfill’d her visit, and return’d to GOD.
O that our flesh, like hers, might rest in hope
Till earth and ocean give their prisoners up,
Till the great Object of our love and fear,
With myriads of his shining friends appear,
And all with shouts proclaim the heavenly Bridegroom here.
Beneath a daughter of affliction lies
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “Epitaph for Miss Molly Leyson.” This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Six.” 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 1977/569, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 436.
Publishing: Public Domain