Religion
Grace After Meat
From Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739) · Osborn ed., vol. 1 (1868)
Being of beings, God of Love,
To Thee our hearts we raise;
Thy all-sustaining power we prove,
And gladly sing Thy praise.
Thine, wholly Thine, we pant to be;
Our sacrifice receive;
Made, and preserved, and saved by Thee,
To Thee ourselves we give.
Heavenward our every wish aspires:
For all Thy mercy's store
The sole return Thy love requires
Is, that we ask for more.
For more we ask; we open then
Our hearts to' embrace Thy will:
Turn, and beget us, Lord, again,
With all Thy fulness fill!
Come, Holy Ghost, the Saviour's love
Shed in our hearts abroad;
So shall we ever live, and move,
And be, with Christ, in God.
Codex Note
Attributed to Charles Wesley; Osborn's edition does not distinguish the brothers
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Wesley, Charles. “Grace After Meat.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/7/.
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