O the length, and breadth, and height

Verse 1
O the length and breadth and height
And depth of dying love!
Love that turns our faith to sight
And wafts to heaven above!
Pledge of our possession this,
This which nature faints to bear;
Who shall then support the bliss,
The joy the rapture there!

Verse 2
Flesh and blood shall not receive
The vast inheritance;
God we cannot see, and live
The life of feeble sense,
In our weakest nonage, here,
Up into our head we grow,
Saints before our Lord appear,
And ripe for heaven below.

Verse 3
We his image shall regain,
And to his stature rise,
Rise unto[1] a perfect man,
And then ascend the skies,
Find our happy mansions there,
Strong to bear the joys above
All the glorious weight to bear
Of everlasting love.

[1] Wesley changed “unto” to “into” in 1761.

Hymnal/Album: Introduced in a hymnal jointly credited to John and Charles Wesley; it is likely though not fully certain that Charles wrote it. Introduced in Hymns on the Lord's Supper, published by John and Charles Wesley (Bristol: Felix Farley, 1745).Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 3 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1869), page 291.
Publishing: Public Domain