Thee thy first disciples saw,
When thou didst from earth withdraw,
Prostrate they receiv’d the sign,
Then the plenitude divine:
Still our faith with joyful eyes
Sees our parting Master rise,
Thus assur’d thy Spirit shall come,
Make us his eternal home.
Thee Thy first disciples saw
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “If thou see me, when I am taken from thee, it shall be so unto thee.”—[II. Kings] ii. 10. 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 185.
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