Happy soul enjoy thy lot
Finding him thou soughtest not:
O that I with thee could say,
“I shall see him in that day!”
When he doth on earth appear,
O might I behold him near,
Now, like the old seer, forgiven,
Snatch’d as out of hell to heaven!
Happy soul, enjoy thy lot
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh.”—[Num.] xxiv. 17. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). 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 84.
Publishing: Public Domain