When by the harp’s harmonious aid
The fluttering of his spirit is laid,
When nature’s latest tumult ends,
The Lord upon his soul descends,
Whose visit greater honour brings
Than three of earth’s attending kings!
When by the harp’s harmonious aid
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “It came to pass when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.”—II. Kings iii. 15. 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 190.
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