Afraid to think the vision true,
Thy heart with dubious joy shall beat,
Thy heart inlarg’d shall pant anew,
When forc’d the real bliss t’ admit,
When hosts and fleets to thee resign
The fulness of the lands and floods,
And earth, and sea, and all is thine,
And thou art Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.
Afraid to think the vision true
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Then thou shalt see, and flow together, &c.”—[Isa.] lx. 5. 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 453.
Publishing: Public Domain