Tho’ his glorified estate
Swallows up the Man of woe,
Can our Lord so soon forget
All his suffering days below?
No; his changeless love withstands,
Love retains the bleeding scars,
Still he bears us on his hands,
Graven on his heart he bears!
Though his glorified estate
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘He said unto them, What things?’—[Luke 24,] v. 19.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 208.
Publishing: Public Domain