By mercy seal’d in lasting sleep,
Mine eyes shall then no longer weep;
My flesh in hope shall rest
Blended with my forefathers’ dust,
’Till wak’d by him in whom I trust,
I mingle with the blest.
By mercy seal’d in lasting sleep
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers.”—[Deut.] xxxi. 16. 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 106.
Publishing: Public Domain