Let me wander not unseen
O’er dirty streets and babels {l—n},
Where the men of busy face
Bustle through the carts and drays;
Where the Hecates sing so sweet,
Where the saunt’ring lovers meet,
And every cit delights to range
Under the walls of Bristol Change.
Let me wander not unseen
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “For Miss [Krli].” This hymn appears in the manuscript “MS Nursery.” 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 1977/594/16, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 5). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 1 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1988), page 284.
Publishing: Public Domain