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The poetical publications of John and Charles Wesley originally appeared at various intervals during a span of fifty-three years. G. Osborn has collected, arranged, and provided notes for all of these important poems and hymns. Many of these works, especially those of Charles Wesley’s (whose work makes up the bulk of this collection), were never before published or published anonymously. Charles...

1 O DEATH, thou art on every side, Thy thousand gates stand open wide, The weary to receive: Yet I can find no rest for me, I suffer all my misery, And still alas I live! 2 Still my imprison’d spirit waits; In vain for me thy thousand gates Stand open day and night, And other souls their exit make, On every moment’s wings they take Their everlasting flight. 3 Envious I hear the passing bell With sweetly-melancholy knell Their happy change declare: But I can see no end of strife, The’ intolerable
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