In age and feebleness extreme,
Who shall a helpless worm redeem?
Jesus, my only hope Thou art,
Strength of my failing flesh and heart:
O could I catch one smile from Thee,
And drop into eternity!
Charles Wesley, 1788. This hymn was …composed by Charles Wesley in extreme old age. [It] was his last utterance in verse, and was dictated on his death-bed
(Hymnal of the Methodist Episcopal Church with Tunes: New York, Eaton & Mains, 1878), p. 422).
Vale, John D. Buckingham (1855-?) (MIDI, NWC, PDF).
