The sheep their faithful Shepherd leave

Verse 1
The sheep their faithful Shepherd leave:
His life he doth a ransom give,
To bring the wanderers back;
And whom he makes his tenderest care,
And whom he in his arms doth bear
He never will forsake.

Verse 2
Before us still, great Shepherd, go,
Cause every sheep thy voice to know
And risen from the dead
Thy feeble, scatter’d followers raise,
And chear’d and fortified by grace
To life eternal lead.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘After I am risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.’—[Matt. 26,] v. 32.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. 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 402.
Publishing: Public Domain