Wherefore should we droop or fear

Verse 1
Wherefore should we droop or fear,
When the hour of death is near?
Death is but a ready way
Leading to the realms of day:
Wing’d in death our souls shall fly
To our city in the sky,
Find in Him that reigns above
All we wish and all we love.

Verse 2
Tell me, O my Life, my Hope,
When shall I be taken up?
If thy signs I understand,
Now the time is near at hand:
Set my stedfast face and heart,
Make me ready to depart,
Breathe thyself into my breast,
Bear me to eternal rest.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When the time was come that he should be received up, he stedfastly set his face to go to Jerusalem.'—[Luke 9,] v. 51.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” 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 1977/575, 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 189.
Publishing: Public Domain