What say the happy dead?
They bid me bear my load,
With silent steps proceed,
And follow them to God;
’Till life’s uneasy dream
In rapture shall depart,
They bid me give, like them,
To Christ my bleeding heart.
What say the happy dead?
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “He being dead, yet speaketh.”—[Heb.] xi. 4. 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 149.
Publishing: Public Domain