The darkness doth to light succeed

Verse 1
The darkness doth to light succeed,
To rapt’rous joy the humble dread,
(Howe’er our flesh complain,
And still for consolations pine)
Permitted by the will Divine
The cloud returns again.

Verse 2
We enter then into the cloud,
When Christ suspends the light bestow’d,
Or sensibly withdraws,
That feeling all our comforts gone,
Our souls may cleave to Him alone,
And hang upon his cross.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘There came a cloud, and overshadowed them, and they feared as they entred into the cloud.'—[Luke 9,] v. 34.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Luke.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/575, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 112.
Publishing: Public Domain