Ah! Lord, direct my aim aright

Verse 1
Ah, Lord, direct mine aim aright,
Fill up my soul with purest light
With genuine sanctity,
Leave here no uninlighten’d part,
No sin or folly in my heart,
No pride or self in me.

Verse 2
Then shall the lamp diffuse its blaze,
Thro’ the once dark infernal place,
Thro’ my whole nature shine,
While all my faculties restor’d
Reflect the candle of the Lord,
The heavenly Light Divine.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If then thy whole body be full of light, not having any part dark, the whole shall be as full of light, as when a lamp inlightens thee with its bright shining.'—[Luke 11,] v. 36.” 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 The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 206.
Publishing: Public Domain