Saviour, Thou seest my heart’s desire

Verse 1
Saviour, Thou seest my heart’s desire,
The wish Thou didst thyself inspire,
Thy word and tempers to receive,
In peace with all mankind to live:
Or if alas, it cannot be,
Yet O, destroy the bar in me;
In me let wars and fightings cease,
And all my soul be love and peace.

Verse 2
For universal peace I pine,
And breathing in the Spirit divine,
Meek love to furious hate oppose,
And conquer all my soften’d foes;
As brethren dear, the blood-bought race,
With cordial amity embrace;
And for one further blessing sigh,
In peace with all mankind to die.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.’—[Rom.] 12:18.” This hymn appears in the 1783 manuscript “MS Scriptural Hymns.” 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 1977/576, 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. 13 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1872), page 19.
Publishing: Public Domain