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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...

* FAREWELL, my dearest child, farewell! Wise, pious, good, beyond thy years! Thy ravish’d excellence I feel Bereaved—dissolved in softest tears. But soon, if worthy of the grace, I shall again behold thee nigh, Again my dearest child embrace: “Haste to my arms, Maria, fly! “To a fond father’s arms return,” I then in ecstasies shall say, “No more to part, no more to mourn, But sing through one eternal day!”