Such was our ignorant desire

Verse 1
Such was our ignorant desire,
Our zeal above the rest t’ aspire,
While babes, the father’s joy to prove!
Ambitious at thy side to reign,
The rest without the toil to gain,
We ask’d the crown of perfect love:

Verse 2
Blindly we ask’d for pain and loss,
A deeper cup, an heavier cross;
And still we all thy grace implore:
But humbly waiting to receive,
Manner and time to thee we leave,
Thy will be done, we ask no more.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Ye know not what ye ask.”—[Matt.] xx. 22. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 2 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 335.
Publishing: Public Domain