With countless burthens prest,
We groan for endless rest,
Long to find this mortal frame
Turn’d into an heavenly shrine,
Lighted by the glorious Lamb,
All immortal, all divine.
With countless burdens pressed
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “That mortality might be swallowed up of life.”—[2 Cor.] v. 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 48.
Publishing: Public Domain