Empty the lamp, till Thou impart

Empty the lamp, till thou impart
Thy Spirit from above;
Now, Saviour, pour into my heart
The oil of joy and love.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “They took no oyl with them.”—[Matt.] xxv. 3. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 382.
Publishing: Public Domain