Sun of righteousness, arise, light of life

Verse 1
Sun of righteousness, arise
Light of life, thy beams impart,
Pouring eye-sight on my eyes,
Pouring faith into my heart,
Faith, to see my sins forgiven,
Love, to taste my present heaven.

Verse 2
Dark, I mourn, till Thou appear,
Bound in chains of unbelief,
Till the heavenly Comforter
Chase away my sin and grief,
Make my soul his hallow’d shrine,
Change my human to divine.

Verse 3
Give me an inlighten’d mind,
O thou great Unsearchable,
Senses spiritual to find
Him for whom I blindly feel,
Him I know not how t’ adore,
Him I never miss’d before.

Verse 4
But I now my want bemoan;
God of love, restore my sight,
Only by thy Spirit known,
Visible by thy own light,
Give me eyes of faith to see
Him who loved, and died for me.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “[Hymns for a Blind man.] Hymn III.” This hymn appears in the ca. 1786 manuscript “MS Miscellaneous Hymns.” 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 1977/556, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 2). 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 and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 3 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1992), page 276-77.
Publishing: Public Domain