Wesley Corpus

Solomon’s Song. Chapter 5:15, etc. [George Sandys] Source: Hymns and Sacred Poems (1740), Part I Author: Charles Wesley (attributed) --- Would’st thou, great love, once set her free, How would she haste t’ unite with thee! She’d for no angel’s conduct stay, But fly, and love on all the way. Solomon’s Song. Chap. v. 15, &c. Alter’d from Sandys.76 Who’s this, who like the morning shews, When she her paths with roses strews; More fair than the replenish’d moon, More radiant than the sun at noon. Not armies with their ensigns spread, So threaten with amazing dread! His looks like cedars planted on The brows of lofty Lebanon: His tongue the ear with musick feeds, And he in every part exceeds: Among ten thousand he appears The chief, and beauty’s ensign bears. I, my belov’d, am only thine: And thou by just exchange art mine. Come let us tread the pleasant fields; Taste we what fruit the country yields, There where no frosts our spring destroy Shalt thou alone my love enjoy. 76Source: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (London: John Legat, 1641), 20-32 (with much skipping around). Omitted from the 4th edn. (1743) and following of HSP (1739/40), because moved to