Verse 1
See the first expiring witness,
Qualified for glorious rest,
Meet with love’s celestial meetness
Sinks on his Redeemer’s breast;
Safe his soul in Jesus keeping
Dust to dust his body borne,
Lies repos’d, and sweetly sleeping,
Till his heavenly Lord return.

Verse 2
O how infinite the price is
Of a slaughter’d Christian’s prayer!
O how vast an harvest rises
From the seed that’s buried there!
Sinful souls by grace forgiven
Rise, a countless multitude,
Spread, and fill both earth and heaven,
From a single martyr’s blood!

Verse 3
Saul, the furious Saul, confesses
First the power of Stephen’s cries,
Jesus witnesses increases,
For his Saviour lives and dies!
Myriads since have vied with Stephen,
Rais’d the martyrs noble host,
Died, and in the highest heaven
Found the life on earth they lost!