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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 FROM whence these dire portents around,* That strike us with unwonted fear? Why do these earthquakes rock the ground, And threaten our destruction near? Ye prophets smooth, the cause explain, And lull us to repose again. 2 “Or water swelling for a vent, Or air impatient to get free, Or fire within earth’s entrails pent;” Yet all are order’d, Lord, by Thee; The elements obey Thy nod, And nature vindicates her God. 3 The pillars of the earth are Thine, And Thou hast set the world thereon;
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