Ye Nations hear! A Monarch great and good
Pleads for the Parricides, who spilt his blood,
The Judges prays their sentence to suspend,
And let their King his Murtherers defend:
“They thought it right their Leaders to obey
“A Tyrant, and their Country’s Foe to slay,
“Mercy extend to Them that dying I
“With confidence may thus for mercy cry,
“Father, for Jesus sake, the sinner save,
“Forgiving me, as I my Foes forgave![”]
Ye Nations hear! A Monarch great and good
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “The Speech of Poniatowski, King of Poland, 1771.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1785 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Poems.” 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 1977/559, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 388.
Publishing: Public Domain