’Tis thus we in our manner say,
They have no respite night or day,
For in eternal night shut up,
They have no day, no sun, no hope!
Tis thus we in our manner say
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They have no rest day nor night.”—[Rev.] xiv. 11. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 236.
Publishing: Public Domain