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Isaiah 33: Thine eyes shall see the Kingin His beauty, &c
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 9 (1870)
I I Long to behold Him array'd
With glory and light from above,
The King in His beauty display'd,
His beauty of holiest love:
I languish and die to be there
Where Jesus hath fix'd His abode:
O when shall we meet in the air,
And fly to the mountain of God!
With Him I on Sion shall stand,
(For Jesus hath spoken the word,)
The breadth of IiiwiaimcPs land
Survey by the light of my Lord:
But when on Thy bosom reclined
Thy face I am strengthen'd to see,
My fulness of rapture I find.
My heaven of heavens in Thee.
Surely the promise is for me.
Mine eyes shall in His beauty see
The King of saints above.
I shall on all His glories gaze,
And hymn in everlasting lays
The majesty of love.
Where angels in His presence stand,
I shall behold the heavenly land
Of full felicity;
Far from this vale of sin and woe,
My raptured soul the God shall know.
Who bought the land for me.
I only wait till Thou impart
Thyself, the earnest, to my heart.
The pure and perfect grace.
The meetness for that blissful sight,
And then surround me with the lisfht
Of Thy unclouded face.
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Wesley, Charles. “Isaiah 33: Thine eyes shall see the Kingin His beauty, &c.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/wesley_c/3454/.
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