Smitten the shepherd was,
Dispers’d the frighted sheep:
But gather’d now beneath his cross
He doth his people keep;
From him, whose hand doth hold,
We shall no more be driven,
For when his bosom is our fold,
We rest secure in heaven.
Smitten the Shepherd was
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered; and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.”—[Zech.] xiii. 7. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 124.
Publishing: Public Domain