Blooming innocence, adieu

Verse 1
Blooming Innocence, adieu,
Lovely, transitory flower,
Faded is thy youthful hue,
Ended is thy morning hour,
Death hath closed thy sleeping eyes,
Opening them in paradise.

Verse 2
Ravish’d hence by Sovereign LOVE,
Wing’d with empyrean fire
Soars thy soul to joys above,
Mingled with th’ immortal quire
Hears the music of the spheres,
All those heavenly harpers hears.

Verse 3
Happy harmonist, to thee
Sovereign LOVE assigns a place,
Crowns thy spotless purity,
Decks thy head with brighter rays,
Bids thee join the virgin-throng,
Chant th’ inimitable song.

Verse 4
Hastning thro’ this mortal vale
Lo, we after thee aspire,
Where thou dost their triumph swell,
Raise their highest raptures higher,
Sing the glorious One in Three,
Shout thro’ all eternity.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “On the Death of Mr Charles Worgan.” Wesley included this hymn in a manuscript known as MS Funeral Hymns. This manuscript appears in the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester, accession number MA 1977/578 (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. 6 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 365.
Publishing: Public Domain