In fixed attention wait

In fixt attention wait
Till Christ the Bridegroom come,
His ready servants to translate
To their eternal home:
With eager joy receive
The soul-dismissing word,
And die into his arms, and live
Triumphant with your Lord.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their Lord &c.'—[Luke 12, v. 36].” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 139.
Publishing: Public Domain