LYRICS
| Meter: | 6 6 8 6 (S.M.)
| | Writer(s): | Charles Wesley
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| A Collection of Hymns (Methodist)
| 1889
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| 1. And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown -
2. A land of deepest shade,
Unpierced by human thought,
The dreary regions of the dead,
Where all things are forgot?
3. Soon as from earth I go,
What will become of me?
Eternal happiness or woe
Must then my portion be;
4. Waked by the trumpet's sound,
I from my grave shall rise,
And see the Judge with glory crowned,
And see the flaming skies.
5. How shall I leave my tomb?
With triumph or regret?
A fearful or a joyful doom,
A curse or blessing meet?
6. Will angel-bands convey
Their brother to the bar?
Or devils drag my soul away,
To meet its sentence there?
7. Who can resolve the doubt
That tears my anxious breast?
Shall I be with the damned cast out,
Or numbered with the blest?
8. I must from God be driven,
Or with my Saviour dwell;
Must come at his command to heaven,
Or else - depart to hell.
9. O thou that wouldst not have
One wretched sinner die,
Who died'st thyself; my soul to save
From endless misery!
10. Show me the way to shun
Thy dreadful wrath severe,
That when thou comest on thy throne
I may with joy appear.
11. Thou art thyself the Way;
Thyself in me reveal;
So shall I spend my life's short day
Obedient to thy will;
12. So shall I love my God,
Because he first loved me,
And praise thee in thy bright abode,
To all eternity.
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