"And am I born to die?
To lay this body down?
And must my trembling spirit fly
Into a world unknown?" Charles Wesley (1707-1788), British hymn-writer. "Hymn XLI," l. 1-4, A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People Called Methodists, London, J. Paramore (1780). |
"I rise superior to my pain,
When I am weak then I am strong;" Charles Wesley (1707-1788), British hymn writer. Wrestling Jacob (l. 33-34). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. |
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