Come, let us join our friends above
Come let us join our friends above. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Funeral Hymns (1759) in five 8-line stanzas, this hymn has been subjected to considerable textual revision and does not appear in any hymnbook in its full, original form, which can be found in Frank Baker’s Representative Verse of Charles Wesley (1962), pp. 131ff. The least drastic amendment follows the example of MHB in retaining most of the original text, omitting only verses 3b and 4a:
His militant, embodied host
With wishful looks we stand,
And long to see that happy coast,
And reach that heavenly land.
Our old companions in distress
We haste again to see,
And eager long for our release...
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Chicago style (see The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th Ed.)
. "Come, let us join our friends above."
The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Canterbury Press, accessed January 19, 2025,
http://www.hymnology.co.uk/c/come,-let-us-join-our-friends-above.