See the day-spring from afar

Verse 1
“See the day-spring from afar
Usher’d by the morning-star!”
Haste; to him who sends the light,
Hallow the remains of night.
Souls, put on your glorious dress,
Waking into righteousness:
Cloath’d with Christ aspire to shine,
Radiance he of light divine;
Beam of the eternal beam,
He in God, and God in him!
Strive we him in us to see,
Transcript of the deity.

Verse 2
Burst we then the bands of death,
Rais’d by his all-quickning breath;
Long we to be loos’d from earth,
Struggling[1] into second birth.
Spent at length is nature’s night;
Christ attends to give us light,
Christ attends himself to give;
God we now may see, and live.
Tho’ the outward man decay;
Form’d within us day by day
Still the inner man we view,
Christ creating all things new.

Verse 3
Turn, O turn us, Lord, again,
Raiser thou of fallen man!
Sin destroy and nature’s boast,
Saviour thou of spirits lost!
Thy great will in us be done:
Crucified and dead our own,
Ours no longer let us be;
Hide us from ourselves in thee!
Thou the life, the truth, the way,
Suffer us no more to stray;
Give us, Lord, and ever give
Thee to know, in thee to live!

[1] Wesley changed“Struggling” to “Struggle” in 1743.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: "A Morning Hymn." This is the original version of this hymn, as first published in "Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739)," published by John and Charles Wesley (London: William Strahan, 1739). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 1 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1868), page 158.
Publishing: Public Domain