Christ, Whose Glory Fills the Skies

Charles Wesley

“Give up all hope to look upon the skies!” cries the old boatman Charon to the souls who have gathered at the shores of the swampy river, to be ferried across to You Know Where. It’s not a good day for them. In Dante’s Italian, which is the language that that line comes from, you have the same word for “heaven” as for “sky,” and so it is in German and…