Beneath a mountain-load of night

Verse 1
Beneath a mountain-load of night,
Of unbelief, I groan,
Till Thou, the true, eternal Light,
To my relief come down,
My darkness by thy presence chase,
My weight of sin remove,
And show the brightness of thy face
In manifested Love.

Verse 2
If Thou vouchsafe thy face to show,
If Thou appear again,
My mountain-sins shall melt and flow,
And pass into a plain:
Fix then thy presence in my heart,
Be Thou my perfect power,
And unbelief shall all depart,
And pride exist no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘O that the mountains might flow down at thy presence!’—[Isa.] 64:1.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural 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 1977/576, 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. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 460.
Publishing: Public Domain