A soul who hath the Saviour known,
And seen him bleeding on the cross,
When Christ out of his sight is gone,
Most sensibly resents the loss,
He weeps disconsolate, and sighs,
And tells to Jesus friends his pain,
And restless every means he tries,
To find his dear-lov’d Lord again.
A soul who hath the Saviour known
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter &c.’—[John 20,] v. 2." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 101.
Publishing: Public Domain