Determin’d after thee I bear
My cross to Calvary,
And come thy bitterest cup to share,
And with my Saviour die:
The place where once thy body lay,
The place it did perfume,
There will I drop my breathless clay,
And rest within thy tomb.
Determined after Thee I bear
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried.”—[Ruth] i. 17. 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 144.
Publishing: Public Domain