Religion
Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 26
From Hymns on the Lord's Supper (1745) · Osborn ed., vol. 3 (1869)
Tis done! the' atoning work is done:
Jesus, the world's Redeemer, dies!
All nature feels the' important groan
Loud echoing through the earth and skies;
The earth doth to her centre quake,
And heaven as hell's deep gloom is black!
The temple's veil is rent in twain,
While Jesus meekly bows His head;
The rocks resent His mortal pain,
The yawning graves give up their dead;
The bodies of the saints arise,
Reviving as their Saviour dies.
And shall not we His death partake,
In sympathetic anguish groan?
O Saviour, let Thy passion shake
Our earth, and rent our hearts of stone,
To second life our souls restore,
And wake us that we sleep no more.
Codex Note
Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers
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Wesley, Charles. “Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 26.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/442/.
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Wesley, Charles. “Hymns on the Lord's Supper, 26.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/442/.
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