Thanks to my redeeming Lord

Thanks to my redeeming Lord!
Late by thee to sight restor’d,
Life itself I plainly see
One short step ’twixt death and me:
While this one short step I take,
Keep me for thy mercy’s sake,
Furnish’d then with wings to fly
Bear me, Saviour, to the sky.

Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “There is but a step between me and death.”—[I. Sam.] xx. 3. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 161.
Publishing: Public Domain