Give me love, and let me die

Verse 1
Give me love, and let me die,
Happy die, or happy live,
Live thy Name to glorify
Die thy fulness to receive:
Thou the Potter, I the Clay,
I thy only will obey.

Verse 2
By thy most benign command
Bound I am my God to love:
Who against thy will can stand?
Mountains at thy word remove,
Stone is turn’d to flesh, and I
With thy dear command comply.

Verse 3
Now the pretious grace impart,
Now the promis’d good bestow,
Pour thy love into my heart,
Let it all my soul or’eflow,
Love which none can comprehend,
Without bound, and without end.

Verse 4
Then, without a wish, I wait
Till my change appointed come
Till the ministers of fate
Bear my ready spirit home
All thy plenitude to prove
Lost in an abyss of Love.

Hymnal/Album: This hymn was included in a manuscript titled “MS Hymns for Love.” This manuscript is held by the Methodist Archive and Research Centre of the John Rylands Library at The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/578, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 8 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 383.
Publishing: Public Domain