How long hast Thou vouchsafed to feed

How long hast Thou vouchsaf’d to feed
Thy follower in the wilderness!
And yet I know thee not indeed,
Nor truly by my life confess:
Prophet Divine, rais’d up for me,
Thine utmost power of love exert,
Then shall I all thy wonders see,
And hear my Teacher in my heart.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘When they had seen the miracle that Jesus did, they said, This is of a truth that Prophet that should come into the world.’—[John 6,] v. 14." This hymn appears in the 1763-64 manuscript “MS John.” 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 1977/573, 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. 11 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 379.
Publishing: Public Domain