Such is my soul, confus’d and void,
With darkness palpable o’er-spread,
Stript of the living form of God,
Fallen, emphatically dead,
’Till the eternal Spirit move,
And raise again the spark of love.
Such is my soul, confused and void
Hymnal/Album: Original title: “The earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep.”—i. 2. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 1.
Publishing: Public Domain