Darken’d by the’ excess of light

Darken’d by an excess of light,
My Guide unseen shall lead aright
A soul that nothing sees,
Thy Spirit shall reach out his hand,
And bring me forth into the land
Of rest and righteousness.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When I could not see for the glory of that light, being led by the hand of them that were with me, I came into Damascus.’—[Acts 22,] v. 11." This hymn appears in the 1764 manuscript “MS Acts.” 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 1977/555, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 1). 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 396.
Publishing: Public Domain