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.
That chariot, in my life’s short day
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.
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