Jesu, thy wandering sheep behold

Jesu, thy wandering sheep behold. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788). First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1742), Part II, in eleven 4-line stanzas. Six stanzas (1-5, 8) were included in the 1831 supplement to A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the People called Methodists (1780), and in the 1876 edition (‘Wesley’s Hymns’) , with the second and third lines, ‘See, Lord, with yearning bowels see/The souls that cannot find the fold’, amended in 1876 to ‘See, Lord, with tenderest pity see/The sheep that cannot find the fold’: Jesu, thy wandering sheep behold!  See, Lord, with tenderest pity seeThe sheep that cannot find the fold,  Till sought and cathered in by Thee. Lost are they now, and...