See how great a flame aspires
See how great a flame aspires. Charles Wesley* (1707-1788).
First published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749) in four 8-line stanzas, with the title ‘After Preaching to the Newcastle Colliers’. It was dated 1746 in JJ, p. 1037, based on Thomas Jackson’s Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wesley. Though it has often been supposed that the title was a reference to Newcastle upon Tyne, manuscript evidence indicates that the hymn was written ‘at Leaving ye Staffordshire Colliers’, thus referring to Newcastle [under Lyme] in that county (see Frank Baker’s Representative Verse of Charles Wesley (1962), pp. 110-11, where the full original text may also be found). It was included in John Wesley*’s...
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