Dismiss’d I calmly go my way

Verse 1
Dismiss’d, I calmly go my way
Which leads me to the tomb,
And rest in hope of that great day
When my desire shall come:
Happy, with those that first arise,
Might I my lot obtain,
When Christ descending from the skies
Begins his glorious reign.

Verse 2
An end of all these earthly things
Shall I not wake to see?
And wilt not thou, O King of kings,
Appoint a throne for me?
I lay me down at thy command,
But soon to life restor’d,
I trust on the new earth to stand
Before my heavenly Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Go thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.”—[Dan.] xii. 13. 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 72.
Publishing: Public Domain