Can I be near the mingled pool
That flow’d from Jesus side,
And not desire to plunge my soul
Into the sacred tide?
Impatient of the least delay,
This moment, Lord, I wou’d
Enter, and wash my sins away
In thine atoning blood.
Can I be near the mingled pool
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘See, here is water; what doth hinder me to be baptized?’—[Acts 8,] v. 36.” This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 323.
Publishing: Public Domain