Tongues at first were multiplied

Verse 1
Tongues at first were multiplied,
Proud aspiring worms t’ abase,
Rebels to confound, divide,
Wide disperse th’ audacious race:
God by different languages
Baffled their gigantic power,
Bad their impious project cease,
Stopp’d the heaven-invading tower.

Verse 2
Tongues are multiplied again,
(While our God in love comes down)
To collect the sons of men,
Reconcile the world in one,
Make us each with each agree,
Pride the cause of strife remove,
Teach our hearts humility,
Join us all in faith and love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘The multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.’—[Acts 2,] v. 6.” It appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 143.
Publishing: Public Domain