Can the bands of death detain
One from sin by Jesus freed? (Hosea 13:14, I Cor. 15:54-57)
Surely I shall live again,
Feel the voice that wakes the dead, (John 5:25-29, John 11:43-44, I Thess. 4:16)
Rise triumphant o’er the tomb,
See my heavenly Saviour come. (Rev. 1:7, Matt. 24:30)
Can the bands of death detain
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I will ransom them from the power of the grave.”—[Hosea] xiii. 14. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 81.
Publishing: Public Domain