Come, let us anew our journey pursue
Come, let us anew/ Our journey pursue. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns for New-Year’s-Day M.DCC.L (Bristol, 1750), an 11-page pamphlet costing one penny, in three 8-line stanzas. This hymn has remained in use unaltered, save that since the Supplement of 1831 to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists it was divided into six stanzas and ‘may’ was substituted for the subjunctive ‘might’ in stanza 3 line 2. The text in 1750 was as follows:
Come, let us anew Our Journey pursue, Roll round with the year,And never stand still, ’till the Master appear; His adorable will Let us gladly fulfil, And our talents improveBy the patience...
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