If now thou dwellest in my heart,
And I in thee abide,
Nor life, nor death itself shall part
Or tear me from thy side:
What sets me from my prison free
In closer bonds shall join
This disembodied soul to thee
Thro’ endless ages mine.
If now Thou dwellest in my heart
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “The Lord do so to me and more also, if ought but death part thee and me.”—[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.
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