"Again we lift our voice" is an eighteenth-century funeral hymn written by the English hymnwriter Charles Wesley.
The hymn was written upon the death of Samuel Hutchins, a Cornish smith who became one of the earliest Methodist itinerant preachers before dying at an early age. Hutchins was a notable figure in early Methodism, and an account of his life written by his father was published by John Wesley in 1746. Charles Wesley composed the funeral text shortly thereafter, capturing both the personal sorrow of the early Methodist community and their shared Christian assurance of ultimate resurrection.
The text was first published in Hymns and Sacred Poems (1749, Vol. II). It was later embodied as No. 51 in the landmark 1780 edition of the Wesleyan Hymn-Book, through which it passed into numerous other nineteenth-century hymnals across Great Britain and America. The original text was subsequently reprinted in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley (1868–1872, Vol. V, p. 214).
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