Thou who so long hast sav’d me here,
A little longer save,
’Till freed from sin, and freed from fear,
I sink into a grave;
’Till glad I lay this body down,
Thy servant, Lord, attend,
And O! My life of mercies crown
With a triumphant end!
Thou who so long hast sav’d me here
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Forsake me not, when my strength faileth me.”—Psalm lxxi. 8. 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 308.
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