Great author of all my desires,
Thy beauty I languish to see,
My vehement spirit aspires,
And gasps to be happy in thee!
Thee early and late I pursue,
’Till caught to the mansions of light
My Jesus unclouded I view,
And heaven enjoy in the sight.
Great Author of all my desires, Thy beauty
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “With my spirit within me will I seek thee early.”—[Isa.] xxvi. 9. 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 391.
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