Me Thou know’st, my gracious God

Verse 1
Me Thou knowst, my gracious God,
Better than myself I know:
Thou hast shed thy love abroad,
If I taste that heaven below:
If the grace I truly prove,
Ignorant of it’s degree,
Whether more, or less I love,
Lord, I leave it all to Thee.

Verse 2
Me Thou knowst; let that suffice,
All my thoughts to Thee appear:
Happy, if thy glorious eyes
See with smiles my love sincere!
Only let me labour on,
Like the Shepherd good endure,
Till I lay the body down,
Witness thus My love is pure!

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Lord, thou knowest all things, thou knowest that I love thee.’—[John 21,] v. 17." 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. 12 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1871), page 125.
Publishing: Public Domain