1 I want the weeping prophet's heart:
O might my Lord to me impart
Thy bleeding sympathy!
On me, Thou Man of griefs, bestow
The spring of tears, the depth of woe,
The love that was in Thee.
2 I would our desolate Sion mourn
By vile intestine vipers torn,
By endless tempests tost,
A Babel of religious strife,
Buried in forms, whose power and life
Of godliness is lost.
3 Or if Thou hast a few restored,
Yet stranger to their bleeding Lord
The multitude remain,
Dead to a God they never knew,
People, and priests, and princes too
Are numbered with the slain.
4 For these I would in secret grieve,
Their burden all day long receive,
For these incessant pray,
And many a mournful vigil keep,
Water my couch with tears, and weep
My pensive life away.
5 Only regard my dying cries,
And bid the ruin'd church arise
Which more than life I love,
Call all her sons out of their grave,
And this whole house of Israel save
To sing Thy praise above.
Source: The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal: official hymnal of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church #370
Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >
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