See a rough draught of human life

Verse 1
See a rough draught of human life!
All is one continued strife,
Fatigue, and misery!
A night of perilous distress
Without relief without success
We tempt the stormy sea.

Verse 2
But when the dreary hour is o’re,
Jesus on the happy shore
Shall satisfy our need,
Shall bless us with the sight of God,
And with imperishable food
Our raptur’d spirits feed.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘But when the morning was now come, Jesus stood on the shore.’—John 21, v. 4." 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 115.
Publishing: Public Domain