Lord, Thou see’st my heart’s desire,
Still I of Thyself inquire,
Ask, and long thy will to know,
In the knowing grace to grow
Step by step my Guide pursue,
More and more thy pleasure do,
Do with love’s alacrity
All the works prepar’d for me.
Lord, Thou see’st my heart’s desire
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Then Peter went down to the men, and said, Behold, I am he whom ye seek: what is the cause wherefore ye are come?’—[Acts 10,] v. 21.” 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 S.T. Kimbrough Jr. and Oliver A. Beckerlegge, eds., The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, vol. 2 (Nashville: Kingswood Books, 1990), page 337.
Publishing: Public Domain