When Christ doth to the soul appear

Verse 1
When Christ doth to the soul appear,
How good, how pleasant to be here!
Eternal life in Him we know,
And paradise regain’d below:
But if on earth so sweet it is
A drop of that celestial bliss,
What will his saints injoy above
In the full ocean of his love!

Verse 2
Happy who in his house abide,
Inroll’d among the glorified!
They tell the riches of his grace,
They sing in extasy of praise,
“How good for us thy joy to gain,
“And sharers of thy kingdom reign,
“To cast our crowns before thy throne,
“One with our Head, forever one![”]

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Master, it is good for us to be here, and let us make three tabernacles &c.’—[Mark 9,] v. 5.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Mark.” 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 1977/574, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 21.
Publishing: Public Domain