From every golden string

From every golden string
Sublimer praises sound,
The dead restor’d to life they sing,
The wandring sinner found;
Found, to be lost no more,
Alive, in life to stay,
And love, and wonder, and adore
Thro’ one eternal day.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found.'—[Luke 15,] v. 24.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 239.
Publishing: Public Domain