But how much pleasanter to see,
(When time its course hath run)
To gaze with eagle’s eye on thee
Our uncreated Sun!
Thee let me now thro’ faith behold,
And by reflection shine,
’Till nature’s dross is turn’d to gold,
And I am all divine.
But how much pleasanter to see
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “A pleasant thing it is, to behold the sun.”—[Eccles.] xi. 7. 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 358.
Publishing: Public Domain