Ye daughters of Sion, declare
(When ye my beloved have found)
My burthen of sorrow and care,
My painful, incurable wound!
Ah, tell him, it cannot be heal’d,
’Till Jesus appear from above;
I faint for his mercy reveal’d,
I die for a taste of his love!
Ye daughters of Sion, declare
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.”—[Song of Sol.] v. 8. 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 365.
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