That chariot, in my life’s short day

That chariot, in my life’s short day
I oft have seen descend,
To tear my other self away,
To part me from my friend:
But lo, it comes my soul t’ unite
With those that went before,
It whirls me to my friends in light,
Where we shall part no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “And parted them both asunder.”—[II. Kings] ii. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 186.
Publishing: Public Domain